Heroes of empire
Subtitle: five charismatic men and the conquest of Africa
By: Edward Berenson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520234277
Subjects: Mass media; European; Discovery and exploration; Explorers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Henry Morton Stanley and the new journalism; title: Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the making of the French Third Republic; title: Charles Gordon, imperial saint; title: The "Stanley craze"; title: Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Fashoda, and the Dreyfus Affair; title: Brazza and the scandal of the Congo; title: Hubert Lyautey and the French seizure of Morocco.