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The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa

By David Levering Lewis (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1983–84)

Colonialism; African History; French Imperialism; British Empire

New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987

From the publisher’s description:

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received the Bancroft, Parkman, and Pulitzer Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

Subjects
History / Political Science / Colonialism / African History / French Imperialism / British Empire /

Lewis, David Levering (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1983–84). The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.