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Empires in the Sun - The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa (Paperback)
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Empires in the Sun - The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa (Paperback)
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In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically
changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates
how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa
into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. The continent
was a magnet for the high-minded, the philanthropic, the
unscrupulous and the insane. Visionary pro-consuls rub shoulders
with missionaries, explorers, soldiers, adventurers, engineers,
big-game hunters, entrepreneurs and physicians. Eminent historian
Lawrence James narrates how between 1830 and 1945, Britain, France,
Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Italy exported their languages,
laws, culture, religions, scientific and technical knowledge and
economic systems to Africa. The colonial powers imposed
administrations designed to bring stability and peace to a
continent that seemed to lack both. The justification for
emancipation from slavery (and occupation) was the common
assumption that the late nineteenth-century Europe was the summit
of civilization. This magnificent history also pauses to ask: what
did not happen and why?
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