Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism

By Ronald Robinson, John Gallagher

Categories: History

Africa and the Victorians is a 1961 history by Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher, written with Alice Denny. The authors argue that Britain's late-Victorian scramble for Africa was driven less by economic interest than by the strategic anxieties of the 'official mind' in London, above all the security of the route to India through Egypt and the Suez Canal.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “[1:00:57] there was this wonderful book called Africa and the Victorians by Robinson and Gallagher in which they talk about how, why the British annexed Fashoda in the south of Sudan.”