Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781350183568 |
| ISBN10: | 1350183563 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 370 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 540 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | illustrations, maps, bibliography, index |
| 440 |
Category:
Palmerston and Africa
Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy and Justice
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 23 September 2021
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Long description:
This work is based in a time when the British Empire was at its most powerful and self-confident, and Lord Palmerston was at his prime, robust and energetic enough to investigate affairs as apparently minor as that of Rio Nunez. The problem concerned two British traders - Braithwaite and Martin - whose enterprise on the Rio Nunez in West Africa had been attacked by Belgian trading rivals. Palmerston's personal handling of their complaints - in the midst of high affairs of state - is detailed in this account, based on extensive research and new material. It is a portrait of imperial power at its height.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Palmerston and the "Civis Romanus": Britain in mid-century - the political setting for the affair. Part 2 David and Goliath together - Forsters, Braithwaite and Martin, and the most English minister, 1849-1853: prologue - the Cives Britannici; Matthyew Forster MP - champion of the legitimate trade; focus on the Nunez - 1847; the clash of arms, the quest for truth, the veils of deception - actions in Africa and the return to Europe, spring 1849; political scandals and the affair - Palmerston versus de la Hitte, d'Hoffscmidt and the court, 1849-1851; the affair within the affair - end-game, 1852-1853; epilogue. Part 3 Appendices: "Pam" and "Winnie" - a comparison; constitutional and legal aspects; Foreign Office pressures, 1851-1853; the road to Debucca.
