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

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

Steven Press

384 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue Empires follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men whose actions ...

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