The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire

2023/12/20 by Katherine Arnold · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Historical Economic and Social Studies #European Political History Analysis

paper · doi:10.1080/14780038.2023.2293545

Abstract

On 1 April 1890, Germany’s consul general to Zanzibar and Sultan Fumo Bakari of Wituland signed a treaty formalising their ‘friendly relations’ (p. 223). The increasingly ominous predations of Brit...

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