Format:
371 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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25 cm
Edition:
First printing
ISBN:
9780674971851
Content:
Rogue Empires takes a new look at the origins and consequences of a key moment in European History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Drawing on archival research conducted in ten countries and three languages, the book argues that the flood of rogue empires in Africa came about due to a short-lived European obsession with events happening far away, in Southeast Asia. European investors there had recently promoted an idea of buying empires through "private" purchases of sovereignty: full control over a place's resources and people, with neither monitoring by third parties, nor any accountability to a nation, nor, in most cases, the awareness of affected indigenous peoples. Once this idea made its way back around the world to European capitals, it inspired a number of important figures, notably German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and British Prime Minister William Gladstone, to support a string of copycat ventures in Sub-Saharan Africa.--
Content:
The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Press, Steven Rogue empires Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780674978812
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Kongokonferenz Berlin 1884 - 1885
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Kolonialismus
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