TY - BOOK AU - Thomas Pakenham AU - PAKENHAM (Thomas) TI - Scramble for Africa 1876-1912 SN - 0297811304 U1 - 960.23 23 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld And Nicolson KW - Africa History N2 - In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, 'Civilization' and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history ER -