# The Scramble For Africa

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- Book: [The Scramble for Africa](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham/the-scramble-for-africa) ([The Scramble for Africa.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham/the-scramble-for-africa.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Pakenham](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-193-0
- Published: 2015-09-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.