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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A big history of the European 'scramble' for Africa. (  ) zenosbooks | Mar 19, 2009 |  casa_tali | Sep 24, 2008 | 3120 The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, by Thomas Pakenham (read 15 Oct 1998) This is a 1991 book and is very well-done and tells an engrossing story of Europeans in Africa from 1876 to 1912. It hops around from one area to another and does a very good job telling of the significant things going on in those years. One gets a little different perspective on big power rivalry from this book as compared to books studying the run-up to World War One as such. (  )4  Schmerguls | Dec 11, 2007 | I abandoned this book about 250 pages in....just could not plow on through this pedestrian account any longer. J.v.d.A. | Dec 3, 2007 | A first class overview of the history of the colonial project in Africa. (  )1 johnthefireman | Aug 7, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912
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