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The Last Blank Spaces

Exploring Africa and Australia

Dane Kennedy

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ISBN 9780674503861

Publication Date: 03/23/2015

368 pages

15 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table

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Dane Kennedy is Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University.

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At the Boston Globe, read Dane Kennedy’s argument that existing African empires such as Zanzibar, Egypt, and Tripoli used European missions of “discovery” for their own ends

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