New PDF release: The Scramble for Africa

By Robin Brooke-Smith

ISBN-10: 0333424913

ISBN-13: 9780333424919

ISBN-10: 1349089958

ISBN-13: 9781349089956

The prolonged plan of the sequence is designed based on the altering tendencies in background examinations at 18 plus, which now call for the examine of documentary assets and the checking out of ancient skills.

Each quantity, related in layout to the sooner books within the sequence, concentrates on a selected subject inside of a narrower time span. A normal creation to the interval in query is by means of 8 sections facing a tremendous subject. every one part contains an advent, a chain of records to demonstrate the subject matter (drawn usually from fundamental assets) and units of questions following teams of files. the scholar is therefore brought to a much broader variety of resources than that to be present in the normal textbook.

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To which European countries is Jules Ferry referring in extract b when he refers to 'other nations who played a very considerable role three centuries ago' (lines 53-4)? What evidence do these extracts provide that France was reacting in her colonial policy to her perception of the expansiveness of other European Powers? Do the extracts suggest any dues as to the causation of the scramble for Africa? Does this tie in with any other evidence you have come across in this book? What are the 'littoral chiefs' (extract a, line 45)?

D. Nzemeke, British Imperialism and African Response: The Niger Valley, 18511905 (Schoningh, 1982) (c) The Liverpool and London Chambers of Commerce complain at government reluctance to protect trading interests in West Africa 30 In West Africa the British Governments of the last decade have been WEST AFRICA 25 outstripped by Germany and France; the Gambia has dwindled; the Cameroons has been lost; the two foreign powers have intervened between Lagos and Gold Coast Colonies - which Colonies should have been coterminus - the French have spread themselves over Senegambia, and the British Governments have yielded the districts of the Northern Rivers of Sierra Leone ...

To effect an alteration. .. The second basis, that of the application to the Congo and Niger of the principles adopted by the Congress of Vienna with regard to liberty of navigation, has been settled so far as its terms originally extended. Her Majesty's Government wished that the principles might be applied to the other rivers of Western Africa and to the Zambesi. The result has so far not been attained.... Sir E. Malet to Earl Granville In my despatch of 23rd December proceedings of the Conference up to the for Christmas....

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