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First Published in 1998. The aim of this book is to examine the origins and conduct of colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century, as far as possible from the perspectives both of the European invaders and the African resisters, and in the process to demonstrate the impact, both immediate and long-term, of these wars upon the societies, political structures and military theory and... Read more
Chapter One Lords of the land: Africa on the eve of conquest; Chapter Two Masters of the water: the European invaders; Chapter Three A shifting balance, 1830–80; Chapter Four Flood tide, 1880–98; Chapter Five Ominous portents, 1898–1914; Chapter Six Legacies;
Biography
Bruce Vandervort
