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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton - 1841–1904, Anglo-American journalist and empire builder, b. Denbigh, Wales. Originally named John Rowlands, he took the name of his adoptive father in New Orleans, where Stanley went in 1857. After fighting on both sides in the American Civil War, he drifted into journalism. His coverage of Lord Napier's Ethiopian campaign in 1868 for the New York Herald won him journalistic fame, and the Herald commissioned him to go to Africa to find David Livingstone. Stanley located the great explorer on Lake Tanganyika on Nov. 10, 1871, addressing him with the famous words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Failing to persuade Livingstone to leave Africa, Stanley returned to England with the news of his discovery. He found a mixed reception in England, where Livingstone's backers criticized Stanley's efforts and methods. Nevertheless, Stanley led a second expedition (1874–77), sponsored by newspapers, to further Livingstone's explorations. He followed the Congo River from its source to the sea, but he found the British uninterested in developing the region.

Stanley then accepted the invitation of Leopold II of Belgium to head another expedition. During this third journey (1879–84) he helped to organize the notorious Congo Free State (see under Congo, Democratic Republic of the), largely by persuading local chiefs to grant sovereignty over their land to the Belgian king. At the Berlin Conference (1884–85; see Berlin, Conference of) he was instrumental in obtaining American support for Leopold's Congo venture. His last African journey (1887–89), to find Emin Pasha, helped to put Uganda into the British sphere of influence. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Stanley again became a British subject in 1892, sat in Parliament (1895–1900), and was knighted (1899). His spirited and often self-aggrandizing accounts of his adventures include How I Found Livingstone (1872), Through the Dark Continent (2 vol., 1878), In Darkest Africa (2 vol., 1890), and The Exploration Diaries of H. M. Stanley (ed. by R. Stanley and A. Neame, 1961). A British and American hero for about a century, Stanley has fared poorly in recent histories, which have revealed instances of his lying about events in his life, duplicity in some of his dealings, and many acts of brutality to Africans.

See his Autobiography (1909, repr. 1969), ed. by his wife, Dorothy Stanley ; biographies by R. Hall (1974), J. Bierman (1990), and F. McLynn (2 vol., 1989 and 1991); R. Jones, The Rescue of Emin Pasha (1973).

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David Livingstone: His Life and Letters » Read Now
by George Seaver. 649 pgs.

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...FARTHEST WEST 554 31 LAST JOURNEYS: WITH STANLEY 575 32 LAST JOURNEYS: JOURNEYS END...Epilogue 629 Memorabilia from Livingstone 632 Bibliography 634...
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Livingstone's African Journal 1853-1856, Vol. 1 » Read Now
by David Livingstone, I. Schapera. 238 pgs.

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...LIVINGSTONE'S AFRICAN JOURNAL 1853-1856 -ii- LIVINGSTONE'S African Journal 1853-1856 EDITED WITH AN...231 MAPS 1 Sketch map of Livingstone's routes: Central Sector 26...
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The Exploration Diaries of H. M. Stanley: Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts » Read Now
by H. M. Stanley, Alan Neame, Richard Stanley. 208 pgs.

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Through the Dark Continent: Or, the Sources of the Nile, around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean » Read Now
by Henry M. Stanley. 322 pgs.

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...ATLANTIC OCEAN. BY HENRY M. STANLEY, Author of "How I Found Livingstone," etc. ABRIDGED FROM THE...THE name of Henry M. Stanley will be forever linked with...Speke, Grant...
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The Explorers: Great Adventurers Tell Their Own Stories of Discovery ("David Livingstone 1813-1873" begins on p. 90 and "Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904" begins on p. 119) » Read Now
by G. R. Crone. 361 pgs.

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...David Livingstone 90...Henry Morton Stanley 119...the days of Livingstone and Stanley, and some would...ruthlessness of Stanley or Cortes is...Lewis, David Livingstone or...
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature, 1870-1918 ( "David Livingstone 1813-1873" begins on p. 38 and "Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)" begins on p. 42) » Read Now
by Elleke Boehmer. 520 pgs.

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`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together...
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`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial; adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. Drawn from India, Africa, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure that this is one of the most compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period.
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The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration » Read Now
by Henry M. Stanley. 528 pgs.

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...BY HENRY M. STANLEY WITH OVER ONE...work begun by the Livingstone Congo Mission...between Vivi and Stanley Falls have been...scientific result -- Livingstones last...
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Britain and the Congo in the Nineteenth Century » Read Now
by Roger Anstey. 260 pgs.

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...London, 1908 , I, 63. successful and in July 1881 reached Stanley Pool after a journey of twenty-one days from Vivi. 1...Fanny Grattan Guinness had been instrumental in...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake » Read Now
by Pascal James Imperato. 334 pgs.

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In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political & diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for the lake as well as the many expeditions that traveled there. Although the chief competitors...
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In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political & diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for the lake as well as the many expeditions that traveled there. Although the chief competitors for the lake included the British, Italians, the French, Russians, & Ethiopians, its colonial fate was decided by Great Britain & Ethiopia. The role of Ethiopia as a late nineteenth-century colonial power unfolds as Imperato provides unique insights & analyses of Ethiopian colonial policy & its effects on the peoples who inhabited the region of the lake.
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A History of East Africa » Read Now
by Kenneth Ingham. 458 pgs.

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...the illustrations: T. R. ANNAN SONS LTD. -- David Livingstone LADY ALTRINCHAM -- Sir Edward Grigg later Lord Altrincham...GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY -- John Hanning Speke and Sir...
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The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power » Read Now
by Robert I. Rotberg, Miles F. Shore. 804 pgs.

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Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of...
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Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and a ruthless businessman whose guiding principle was "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world-renowned Rhodes Scholarships. Though his own education and intellectual talents were unprepossessing, he dominated the British Empire and became one of the leading figures in the English-speaking world, the confidant of Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm, and a man of vast wealth and world-wide influence. Based on seventeen years of research, this monumental volume offers the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the nineteenth century. Rhodes was truly larger than life, and this book captures that life in fascinating detail. It offers an astute portrait of Rhodes' childhood and adolescence, informed by insights from modern psychology; it vividly depicts life on a nineteenth-century African cotton farm (Rhodes' first venture) and in mining camps around Kimberley and the Witwatersrand; it traces the surreptitious stock buyouts and mergers that allowed Rhodes to gain control over 90% of the world's diamond production by age thirty-five; it describes his campaigns against African populations that allowed him to establish Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); and it discusses the poorly planned, disastrous raid on the Transvaal that destroyed Rhodes' reputation. A conqueror and colonial monarch, Cecil Rhodes presided arrogantly over the fate of southern Africa. But he also built lasting economic institutions, furthered transportation and communication links, improved agriculture, and fervently believed that he used his wealth and power to advance the best interests of the British Empire and Africa. This biography illuminates a complex and fascinating life, a life both evil and good.
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Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism » Read Now
by James S. Olson. 788 pgs.

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This unique reference work on the history of European imperialism is designed to provide a ready reference tool for students and scholars. Its major focus is the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years. The dictionary offers brief...
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This unique reference work on the history of European imperialism is designed to provide a ready reference tool for students and scholars. Its major focus is the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years. The dictionary offers brief descriptive essays on a variety of topics--colonies, prominent individuals, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, and technologies. References at the end of each entry provide sources of additional information for those interested in further research. Cross-references within the text help the reader to find related items.
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