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Rogue Empires Rogue Empires CONTRACTS AND CONMEN IN EU ROPE’S SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA Steven Press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Press, Steven, author. Title: Rogue empires : contracts and conmen in Eu rope’s scramble for Africa / Steven Press. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016044726 | ISBN 9780674971851 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Africa— Colonization— History. | Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–1885 : Berlin, Germany) | Europe— Colonies— Administration— History. | Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815–1898. | Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809–1898. Classification: LCC JV246 .P74 2017 | DDC 325.6— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016044726 To my parents, Michael, Deborah, and David Contents Introduction 1 1 The Man Who Bought a Country 11 2 The Emergence of an Idea 52 3 King Leopold’s Borneo 84 4 Bismarck’s Borneo 131 5 The Berlin Conference 166 Epilogue: Afterlives 219 Notes 253 Acknowl edgments 357 Index 359 Rogue Empires
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