Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism

Author:   Ronald Robinson ,  John Gallagher ,  Alice Denny ,  Wm Roger Louis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781780768564


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   11 August 2015
Format:   Hardback
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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 partitioners themselves. Decision by decision, the reasoning of Prime Ministers Gladstone, Salisbury and Rosebery, their advisors and opponents, is carefully analysed. The result is a history of 'imperialism in the making', not as it appeared to later commentators and historians, but as the empire-makers themselves experienced it from day to day. Featuring a new Foreword by Wm. Roger Louis, this new edition brings a classic work to a new generation and is essential reading for all students of nineteenth-century history.

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Author:   Ronald Robinson ,  John Gallagher ,  Alice Denny ,  Wm Roger Louis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.889kg
ISBN:  

9781780768564


ISBN 10:   1780768567
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   11 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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'Interesting, penetrating and profoundly provocative.' Asa Briggs, New Statesman 'If the first requirement of history is that it should be memorable, the authors of this book have succeeded.' Roland Oliver, The Observer


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Ronald Robinson (1920 - 99) was Beit Professor of Commonwealth History and Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. John Gallagher (1919 - 80) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Alice Denny was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University.

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