The Scramble for Southern Africa, 1877-1895: The Politics of Partition Reappraised

by D. M. Schreuder

The Scramble for Southern Africa formed one of the most dramatic episodes in the more general European assault on Africa by the forces of the New Imperialism in the later nineteenth century. This book offers a fresh reappraisal of the complex sequence of events that surrounded the Partition of Africa south of the Zambesi in the years 1877-95. The Scramble for Southern Africa was, as Professor Schreuder powerfully argues, really a scramble for mastery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521109590
• ISBN13: 9780521109598
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"