Imperialism in the eyes of the world is still Europe s original sin, even though the empires themselves have long since disappeared. Among the most egregious of imperial acts was Victorian Britain s seemingly random partition of Africa. In this classic work of history, a standard text for generations of students and historians now again available, the authors provide a unique account of the motives that went into the continent s partition. Distrusting mechanistic explanations in terms of economic growth or the European balance, the authors consider the intentions in the minds of the...
Imperialism in the eyes of the world is still Europe s original sin, even though the empires themselves have long since disappeared. Among the most eg...