| Abstract: | By the later 1870s, an Africa which now consisted not merely of 'coasts' but a possibly controllable and exploitable interior, had become far more economically interesting to the industrial powers than it had been a generation earlier. Without this development of economically motivated interest, the full-blooded scramble of the 1880s and 1890s is indeed hardly conceivable. But no economic model can explain the pattern of partition that actually took place. 'Prestige' and the desire to demonstrate the 'superiority' of the European seem the most appropriate categories in which to discuss imperial motivations. Bibliogr. essay p. 772-782, bibliogr. p. 832-841, notes. |
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