Excerpt from The New Map of Africa a History of European Colonial, Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy When the New Map of Europe was written, at the beginning of the war, I had to forego dealing in a comprehensive way with colonial questions. Only the facts concerning European expansion in Africa that seemed to have direct bearing upon the diplomatic history of the ten years preceding August 1, 1914 could be included. But what has happened - and what has not happened - in Africa during the past two years revealed to me the necessity of reviewing the fifteen years of colonial development, effort and rivalry of European states in Africa, if I wanted to have a clear understanding of the forces that had driven Europe to war, of the issues that the war was bringing into clear light, and of the problems that would confront the Peace Conference. The facts for a book on European colonization in Africa I had been gathering for years. But I had no idea until now how important these facts were, and how essential a knowledge of them was to the student of contemporary European history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.