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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 960
EAN: 9780380719990
ISBN: 0380719991
Label: Avon Books
Manufacturer: Avon Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 738
Publication Date: December 01, 1992
Publisher: Avon Books
Release Date: December 01, 1992
Sales Rank: 58554
Studio: Avon Books
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White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Mr. Pakenham's literary muse must tell him that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. This opus covers imperialistic activities of the western world in Africa from 1876 to 1912. It would have been excruciatingly dull if Pakenham had taken a strictly chronological, or nation-by-nation, or territory-by-terrority approach. Instead, he mixes and matches, using as the change-keys, the reactions of the European powers, as one or another "explorer" or freebooter raised his sponsor's flag in a virgin ... Read More
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Pakenham succeeds in writing a comprehensive history of the scramble for Africa. His writing style is clear and he is an expert at providing just enough juicy historical context and biographical details to keep the reader interested in a very complex subject. To fully understand the scramble, you have to understand domestic realities in the colonizing countries, shifting alliances and rivalries amongst the European powers, and intricate geographical details that played a key role in determining the ... Read More
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Thomas Pakenham's Scramble for africa is a very good book on a fascinating subject. Colonizing africabegan well before the book's opening 1876 conference hosted by Belgium's King Leopold II, but after this event, according to the book, the "scramble" was on. European nations, primarily Great Britain and France, but also Belgium, Germany, and even Italy, sought territorial gains. This is imperialism at its nadir.
The author implies a hodge-podge, willy-nilly scramble for land that resulted ... Read More
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It would be an understatement to write that Thomas Pakenham embraced an ambitious project in crafting a comprehensive, single-volume history of the European colonization of Africa over the course of some four decades a century ago. Few authors could have succeeded after having bitten off so much. Fewer still could have made it accessible to the layman and an immensely enjoyable read at that. Pakenham is the rare talent able to pull off such a feat.
The story Pakenham tells involves countless ... Read More
Rating: -
In no way the time it took me to read it detracts from its value... the main problem was IT IS SO INFORMATIVE... it is very HARD TO DIGEST... there are no pages of "descriptions" or "irrelevant details"...the whole book is a long chronicle HARD TO PUT DOWN but also HEAVY WITH DENSE INFORMATION.
Another handicap is "I have to be in the mood", as I read several books at the same time... and sometimes lighter reading is more appropiate to just disconnect from work.
This book qualifies for ... Read More
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