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Scramble for Africa

Chamberlain, Muriel Evelyn. The Scramble for Africa. 2nd ed. Longman, 1999. A classic. First published in 1974.

Lewis, David L. The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Reprint, Holt, 1987. 1995. Description of a pivotal event in the drive to colonize Africa.

Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Random House, 1991. An account of the colonization and conquest of Africa by Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy.

Schreuder, Deryck M. The Scramble for Southern Africa, 1877-1895: The Politics of Partition Reappraised. Cambridge University Press, 1980. An objective work on the scramble for territory in southern Africa.

Wesseling, H. L. Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914. Trans. Arnold J. Pomerans. Praeger, 1996. Comprehensive discussion of the partition of Africa by the European powers.

Young, Crawford. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. Yale University Press, 1997. Award-winning survey of the history of colonialism in Africa.