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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa - Press, Steven
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In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men who exploited a loophole in international law to assert sovereignty over lands, and whose actions touched off the Scramble for Africa.

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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa 2017, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674971851

Hardcover