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ISBN10: 9024720990, ISBN13: 9789024720996, [publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague] Hardcover First Edition E234 p. Ex-library. Sound copy with library markings, A sought after title. S14 [Toronto, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1979]
ISBN10: 9024720990, ISBN13: 9789024720996, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the spring of the year 1898 the long rivalry of Britain and France in West Africa reached a dangerous climax. The West African crisis was but one aspect of an extensive Anglo-French contest for colonial possessions which characterized the final decade of the nineteenth century. Competi tion for dominion went on relentlessly in the Nile Valley, along the banks of the Mekong in Southeast Asia, and within the territories of the Niger River Bend. The Upper Nile dispute dwarfed all others; and ultimately the inability of Britain and France to settle this question through diplo matic negotations was to lead to the confrontation at Fashoda. Simulta neously, however, a more obscure struggle was in process, namely the contest for possession of the thousand mile stretch of the Middle Niger. Aside from an infrequent flurry of diplomatic activity occasioned by the foray of an English or French officer into the little known realms of the Niger Bend, the protracted struggle for control of the river artery received scant notice. The Foreign Offices in both France and Britain traditionally regarded the region as one of secondary interest and tended to subordinate it to more pressing concerns. Even the eruption of a dan gerous crisis in West Africa in the spring of 1898 was somewhat over shadowed by the subsequent incident at Fashoda so that th ...
ISBN10: 9024720990, ISBN13: 9789024720996, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the spring of the year 1898 the long rivalry of Britain and France in West Africa reached a dangerous climax. The West African crisis was but one aspect of an extensive Anglo-French contest for colonial possessions which characterized the final decade of the nineteenth century. Competi tion for dominion went on relentlessly in the Nile Valley, along the banks of the Mekong in Southeast Asia, and within the territories of the Niger River Bend. The Upper Nile dispute dwarfed all others; and ultimately the inability of Britain and France to settle this question through diplo matic negotations was to lead to the confrontation at Fashoda. Simulta neously, however, a more obscure struggle was in process, namely the contest for possession of the thousand mile stretch of the Middle Niger. Aside from an infrequent flurry of diplomatic activity occasioned by the foray of an English or French officer into the little known realms of the Niger Bend, the protracted struggle for control of the river artery received scant notice. The Foreign Offices in both France and Britain traditionally regarded the region as one of secondary interest and tended to subordinate it to more pressing concerns. Even the eruption of a dan gerous crisis in West Africa in the spring of 1898 was somewhat over shadowed by the subsequent incident at Fashoda so that th ...
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Diplomacy of Partition : Britain, France and the Creation of Nigeria, 1890-1898. ISBN 9024720990 9789024720996 [GB]
ISBN10: 9024720990, ISBN13: 9789024720996, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Series: Studies in Contemporary History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General; (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526. . 1979. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1979]
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