AFRICAN TRIBES AND EUROPEAN AGENCIES
Colonialism and humanitarianism in
British South and East Africa
1870-1895.

ÅKE HOLMBERG

SCANDINAVIAN UNIVERSITY BOOK
1966

THIS monograph adds a much-needed chapter to the history of British penetration into Southern and Eastern Africa during the late nineteenth century. The general over-all "imperial" view always speaks of the irritating commitments made by the "man on the spot," but without making very clear exactly what the man was thinking about that spot Holmberg looks at imperial expansion through the eyes of the empire builders, rather than through the distant telescope of Whitehall. The results are quite astonishing in their revelations of rivalries, frictions, doubts, and hesitations on the part of empire builders from Rhodes through Lugard and Johnston. The intense pragmatism of these men often gives the impression of almost hand-to-mouth policies and a "feeling out" of what the imperial government would tolerate. Even a Rhodes had to move with circumspection, and theocratic missionary "states" (for such they were in Nyasaland) found the home bodies often cool. (The American Historical Review, July 1967)

CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE. THE ROAD TO THE INTERIOR
1. John Mackenzie v. Cecil Rhodes
2. The humanitarian tradition in South Africa
3. The colonial interests
4. Mackenzie and the Bechuana
5. Rhodes and Bechuanaland
6. The clash of forces
7. The outcome

PAR TWO. THE CONQUEST AND DIVISION OF ZAMBESIA
8. Missionaries and concession hunters in Matabclcland
9. The defeat of Rhodes's opponents
10. The Nyasaland parallelogram of forces
11. The attempt at Company leadership
12. Johnston's solution of the Nyasaland problem
13. The Johnston regime and its opponents

PART THREE. THE BUGANDA FEUDS
14. Arabs, Europeans, and tribes in East Africa
15. The phase of European competition
16. The Company era
17. The establishment of imperial rule in Buganda

Bibliography
Index
Maps: South Africa 1883
The road to the north
Nyasaland
Mideast Africa

23 x 16 cm. 409 pp.

Good + condition, card cover a little worn and with a stamp on the front. A few small marginalia marks.