Scramble For Africa

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 fullscale study of that extraordinary episode in history.