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Rogue Empires

Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa

Steven Press

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ISBN 9780674971851

Publication Date: 04/10/2017

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. The Man Who Bought a Country
2. The Emergence of an Idea
3. King Leopold’s Borneo
4. Bismarck’s Borneo
5. The Berlin Conference
Epilogue: Afterlives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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On the podcast New Books in History, listen to Steven Press recount how European confidence men used questionable treaties to produce numerous privately governed “empires,” some spanning hundreds of thousands of square miles, in the heart of Africa
Read an interview with Press—in which he describes how European nations used private and informal claims as precedents for later colonization efforts—at the website of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, which seeks to recognize social scientists for work that contributes significantly to the study of global history

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