Rogue Empires

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men who exploited a loophole in international law to assert sovereignty over lands, and whose actions touched off the scramble for Africa.

In anii 1880, europenii au apucat vaste zone din continentul african, folosind documente, nu arme, ca arma de alegere. Steven Press urmareste o pista de contracte discutabile pentru a descoperi increderea oamenilor care au exploatat o lacuna in dreptul international pentru a afirma suveranitatea asupra tarilor si ale caror actiuni au atins lupta pentru Africa.