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Why did Britain expand its Empire in Africa from 1880 to 1900?
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Why did Britain expand its Empire in Africa from 1880 to 1900? In 1875 the two most important European holdings in Africa were Algeria and the Colony. The Cape Colony was a lock up point for the British Trading Fleet en route from India and the Far East. By 1914 only Ethiopia and the republic of Liberia remained outside formal European control. The transition from an "informal empire" of control through economic dominance to direct control took the form of a "scramble" for territory by the nations of Europe. Britain tried not to play a part in this early scramble- being more of a trading empire rather then a colonial empire, however it soon became clear it had to gain its own African empire to maintain the balance of power. This is the direct link to Hobson's Theory of 'Overseas Investments'. Hobson saw the 'greedy capitalists' and the British...
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