The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
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The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
John C. Wilkinson [+]
The University of Oxford, (Retired)
John C. Wilkinson, D.Litt, is a former Reader at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 1997.
He has advised several governments in the Middle East on their frontier disputes, including as Counsel for Bahrain in Qatar vs Bahrain, the longest running case to have appeared before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He is author of numerous articles and several books, notably: Water and Tribal Settlement in South-East Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1977), The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Arabia's Frontiers (I.B. Tauris, 1991), A Fatal Duel: “Harry Alis” (1857-95), a behind the scenes figure of the early Third Republic (Antony Rowe, 2006) and Ibâdism: Origins and early development in Oman (Oxford University Press, 2010).
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Map 1 East Africa Map 2 Tribal map of Oman Map 3 European knowledge of central Africa in mid-1885 Map 4 The “Conventional” Congo Basin and the Free Trade Zone following the Berlin Congress, 1885 451 Map 5 The EIC-French Congo boundary as defined in the Berlin Congress (the Ubangui dispute) Map 6 The Route of the EPRE as published on Stanley’s return (1890) by Le Mouvement Géographique Map 7 The Etat Indépendant du Congo 1892 (Le Mouvement Géographique 2 October 1892) Map 8 The Arab Zone