The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution...
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The Scramble for Africa, 1876–1912 or The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, is a comprehensive history...
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The Scramble for China, also known as the Partition of China or the Scramble for Concessions, was a concept that existed during the 1890s in Europe, the...
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(2005). History of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-59957-0. Southall, Roger; Melber, Henning (2009). A New Scramble For Africa?: Imperialism, Investment...
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on the European conquests of African states and societies in the Scramble for Africa (1884–1914) during the age of New Imperialism, followed by gradual...
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Berlin Conference (redirect from Berlin West Africa Conference)
The General Act of Berlin can be seen as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa that was already in full swing. Some scholars, however, warn against...
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Harry Johnston (category British explorers of Africa)
to the continent of Africa and was one of the key players in the Scramble for Africa that occurred at the end of the 19th century. Johnston was born at...
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Mali. However, the French and British continued to advance in the Scramble for Africa, subjugating kingdom after kingdom. With the fall of Samory Ture's...
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Liberia (redirect from LIBERIA, West Africa)
maintain its sovereignty and independence during the European colonial "Scramble for Africa". During World War II, Liberia supported the U.S. war effort against...
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Imperialism (section Pan-African Movement)
annexing other parts of the world. 19th century episodes included the "Scramble for Africa." In the 1970s British historians John Gallagher (1919–1980) and...
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consisted of the Scramble for Africa regulated by the terms of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. The conference effectively divided Africa among the European...
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Second Boer War (redirect from South Africa 1899–1902)
Ladysmith via Pretoria History of South Africa Military history of South Africa Volkstaat First Boer War Scramble for Africa Before Federation in 1901, Australian...
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The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its...
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British Empire (redirect from Commission for Emigration)
and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which...
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East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical...
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Plazas de soberanía (redirect from List of Spanish territories in North Africa)
(1492–1556), as opposed to African territories acquired by Spain during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Scramble for Africa. Historically, a distinction...
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in this aim, though slavery is still very active in Africa. As a part of the Scramble for Africa, France had the establishment of a continuous west–east...
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Thomas (1991). The Scramble for Africa. Harper Collins. pp. 112–115. ISBN 978-0349104492. Chamberlain, M.E. (2010). The Scramble for Africa. Routledge. pp...
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German colonial empire (redirect from German colonies in Africa)
construct a colonial empire until the Scramble for Africa in 1884. Claiming much of the remaining uncolonized areas of Africa, Germany built the third-largest...
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Black nationalism (redirect from African-American nationalism)
Imperialism (1833 to 1914), European nations colonized and occupied Africa in the "Scramble for Africa". This mobilized Black people in the diaspora to activism...
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of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now limited to what would turn out to be the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes. This...
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Africa work?, from Le Monde diplomatique (English edition), September 2000 "BBC - History - British History in depth: Slavery and the 'Scramble for Africa'"...
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The Rhodes Colossus (category British colonisation in Africa)
Scramble for Africa during the New Imperialism period, in which the European powers, beginning in 1884, expanded their colonial expansion in Africa by...
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leftover territory that was not yet conquered by Europeans in the Scramble for Africa, it managed to build the third-largest colonial empire at the time...
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Eswatini (category Countries in Africa)
unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the name of Swaziland...
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control to over nine-tenths in the Scramble for Africa. European colonialism had significant impacts on Africa's societies, and the suppression of communal...
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This race has been referred to as the second Scramble for Africa. All reasons for this global scramble come from the reserves' economic benefits. Transportation...
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Eduard Robert Flegel (category German explorers of Africa)
1886) was a German explorer who played an important role in the Scramble for Africa. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, Flegel trained as a merchant before travelling...
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Belle Époque (section Africa)
Imperialism. The most famous portion of this imperial expansion was the Scramble for Africa. Most of the great powers (and some minor ones such as Belgium, the...
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followed not long after. In the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s the Europeans started to colonise the inland of West Africa, they had previously mostly controlled...
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