You can still see all customer reviews for the product. GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES edited by No, England, France and Germany (principally) sank their teeth into the continent mostly in less direct ways that were just as dismaying.

All violence by Europeans against Africans is casually glossed over while African “barbarism” is greatly lingered upon. I will always treasure this book. As for the colonial period, this book pulls it all together. However, at least after finishing this book, the reader will understand from whence the anger came. HISTORY That’s how you get the Black bourgeoisie. Imperialism is written about like it’s a good thing. For American eyes, Pakenham assumes too much knowledge of British history and its political system. Monsters like Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold are written off a capitalists and geniuses. In the 1950s and 60s, there was a scramble to get out as European Empires collapsed, just as Lord Lugard predicted. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. The Scramble for Africa was a term coined to describe the great rush in the late 19tth Century by the European powers to claim a slice of the African continent. It would be an understatement to write that Thomas Pakenham embraced an ambitious project in crafting a comprehensive, single-volume history of the European colonization of Africa over the course of some four decades a century ago. Thomas Pakenham's sprawling story of the slicing up of a continent by European powers is fascinating, well-written, well worth your time. Thomas Pakenham presents a lengthy and very detailed tome on the European colonisation of the African continent, from the 1870s, and then leading up to the First World War. Sci. in Pol. Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. This book fills in the foundations of what we are seeing being acted out in such places as Rwanda and the Sudan. Pakenham tells of the scramble for loot, markets and colonial prestige in which Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy carved up a continent of 11 million square miles and 200 million people. CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES Every mention of Africans and Arabs is derogatory and intended to create hostility in the reader. As a result, Pakenham's book is really a book about the British scramble for Africa, neglecting some of the most curious cultural and political aspects of the heterogeneous european presence in Africa. Commerce, Christianity, Civilisation and Conquest, the story of African colonisation, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2018. Howard Zinn Lots of details. Absolutely one of the most informative books I've read in a long time.

This book was published in 1992 not 100 years ago so keep in mind this is how white people still feel right now. GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006. Absolutely one of the most informative books I've read in a long time. - King Koko and chiefs of the Brassmen to the Prince of Wales, 1895. It is therefore a rather poor book and one in which prejudice against other european colonial powers is too often evident. The book was written by historian and arborist Thomas Pakenham and published by Random House in 1991. This book has become one of the standard-bearers for historians and casual readers interested in that period. All the Europeans are written about as humanitarians, liberators and moral. POLITICS Pakenham says there has now been a return to the informal empire of trade and influence, with Europe giving Africa the aspirations for freedom and human dignity. | Pakenham tells of the scramble for loot, markets and colonial prestige in which Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy carved up a continent of 11 million square miles and 200 million people. In fact, African people are seldom mentioned other than to be demonized and dehumanized This book epitomizes the European educational system. This could easily be a college textbook. Thomas Pakenham's sprawling story of the slicing up of a continent by European powers is fascinating, well-written, well worth your time. Few authors could have succeeded after having bitten off so much. I will always treasure this book. All violence by Europeans against Africans is casually glossed over while African “barbarism” is greatly lingered upon. | Pakenham is the rare talent able to pull off such a feat. Pakenham portrays the scramble for Africa as a two-player game between Britain and France, with little attention being paid to the portuguese, german, italian or spanish presence and interests in the continent. The story behind these lines is one of greed, cruelty, heroism, misguided pride and sadness. Pakenham says there has now been a return to the informal empire of trade and influence, with Europe giving Africa the aspirations for freedom and human dignity.

Panoramic history at its best: a vivid, dramatic account of how five rapacious European powers seized and subjugated an entire continent.

Instead of negating the one-sided histories he detests, Zinn has merely reversed the image; the distortion remains. All Africans are written about as corrupt, barbaric, savage and cannibals. In presenting this story from a European perspective, Pakenham taps into the ambivalence of the Scramble: it was an era which threw up heroic figures (Livingston, Brazza and young Winston Churchill, to name a few); still, the Scramble was a deeply cowardly enterprise: the subjugation of the weak by the strong. The tribes are fighting each other again. The book's design is as follows: the chapters are independent from each other, each chapter covering a separate region of the continent, separate European powers and their respective military and political personalities involved in those respective areas.

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