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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Publisher's acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Who's who | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Maps | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The African Background | |
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| Environmental factors | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Islam | |
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| The slave trade | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| The Victorian Image of Africa | |
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| The influence of the slave trade | |
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| Eighteenth century scientific interest | |
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| Slave trade versus legitimate trade | |
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| 'Backward' Africa | |
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| The missionaries | |
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| Exploration and its consequences | |
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| Analysis | |
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| The British Occupation of Egypt, 1882 | |
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| The Suez Canal | |
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| Financial problems | |
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| Military action begins | |
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| The debate begins | |
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| West Africa | |
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| Quarrels with the Ashanti | |
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| The challenge from the French | |
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| The Niger | |
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| King Leopold of the Belgians intervenes | |
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| Portugal's claims | |
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| The Berlin West Africa conference | |
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| The Royal Niger Company | |
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| The German challenge | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| East Africa | |
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| A new Australia | |
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| The German challenge | |
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| Strategy versus commerce | |
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| South Africa | |
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| The role of the Boers | |
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| Bechuanaland | |
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| Gold and diamonds | |
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| 'Rhodesia' | |
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| Fashoda and the Anglo-French Agreements of 1904 | |
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| Fashoda | |
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| The 1904 agreements | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Britain: Conservative and Liberal opinion | |
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| Continental opinion too was divided | |
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| The debate begins in earnest | |
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| Lenin takes a hand | |
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| The role of Africans | |
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| Documents | |
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| David Livingstone: humanitarian | |
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| Commerce | |
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| Africa as El Dorado | |
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| Darkest Africa: fully developed racism | |
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| Stanley's antipathy | |
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| Suez Canal | |
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| The Egyptian finances: Stephen Cave's report | |
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| Divided opinions | |
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| Egypt in international diplomacy | |
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| Death of Gordon at Khartoum | |
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| The desire to abandon responsibilities | |
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| The fears of British traders | |
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| The British government's reaction | |
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| The Berlin West Africa conference lays down the 'rules' for the scramble | |
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| The Royal Niger Company | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The mixture of economic and strategic arguments | |
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| The 'little Englanders' stand on Uganda | |
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| Cecil Rhodes | |
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| The Rudd Concession | |
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| The Colonial Office's doubts about the legality of the British South Africa Company's position | |
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| The Fashoda incident | |
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| The Anglo-French agreements of April 1904 | |
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| J.A. Hobson | |
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| V.I. Lenin | |
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| Lord Cromer | |
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| A modern rejection of traditional explanations of the partition | |
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| Was the whole phenomenon economic after all? | |
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| Appendix: European Colonial Background | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |