How German East Africa Was Founded : A Venture in Colonialism on the English Model

Carl Peters, an anglophile German, with connections to the British Establishment, describes how he established African colonies in the British manner, by setting up a joint stock company.

This method was necessitated by Bismark's opposition to the venture.

Peter's naive account is revealing of how Empire's are built in practice.

Angela Clifford's introduction supplies a European context for Germany's Imperial ambitions in the late 19th century.