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1 de dez. de 1992 · Thomas Pakenham. Harper Collins, Dec 1, 1992 - History - 800 pages. White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. More ...
10 de nov. de 1998 · Meetings With Remarkable Trees. $1.30. (199) Only 2 left in stock - order soon. Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong ...
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Thomas Pakenham. Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham (gebore op 14 Augustus 1933 in Bayswater, Londen ), ook bekend as Thomas Pakenham, is 'n Anglo-Ierse geskiedkundige en boomkenner wat bekroonde boeke oor 'n verskeidenheid van onderwerpe geskryf het, soos onder meer Afrika-geskiedenis, die Victoriaanse era, Britse geskiedenis in die post ...
Hypocrisy, jingoism and imperialism unbound. In the 1950s and 60s, there was a scramble to get out as European Empires collapsed, just as Lord Lugard predicted. Pakenham says there has now been a return to the informal empire of trade and influence, with Europe giving Africa the aspirations for freedom and human dignity.
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Thomas Pakenham, author of The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912, on LibraryThing
I read this colossus quite a few years ago and decided to re-read it as research for a book I am writing about Africa. Thomas Pakenham presents a lengthy and very detailed tome on the European colonisation of the African continent, from the 1870s, and then leading up to the First World War. He vividly describes how the 3 Cs ...
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27 de set. de 2011 · The Boer War was morally ambiguous to a greater degree than any we have had to fight. Winston Churchill was strong for the war, but in awe of the Boers. After a battle, writes Pakenham, he had heard a sound which was even worse than the sound of shells; the sound of Boers singing psalms. “It struck the fear of God in me.
