Palmerston and Africa: Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy and Justice

by Roderick Braithwaite

This work is based in a time when the British Empire was at its most powerful and self-confident, and Lord Palmerston was at his prime, robust and energetic enough to investigate affairs as apparently minor as that of Rio Nunez. The problem concerned two British traders - Braithwaite and Martin - whose enterprise on the Rio Nunez in West Africa had been attacked by Belgian trading rivals. Palmerston's personal handling of their complaints - in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350183563
• ISBN13: 9781350183568
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"