Berlin Conference partitions Africa

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• Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 331-334 · open book

  Following on a series of congresses that since 1 8 1 5 had tried to regulate the political order of Europe (chapters 8 and n), the Berlin Confer ence of 1884-85 set out the key principle: a power had to demonstrate effec tive occupation of a territory it claimed.

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