2014-№3(44) Article 6

O.I. Galkina

The British press on German colonial invasion in Africa in 1880s. P. 51-60.

UDC 943.083(05)

The article maintains that the British press of the 1880s was greatly interested in German colonial policy in West-Southern, Western, and Eastern Africa. The major part of newspapers served as mouthpiece for financial, industrial, and colonial circles in defining Great Britain’s spheres of influence in Africa. The majority of British newspapers shared the government’s attitude to German colonial invasion of Africa. The article characterizes the role of press in the formation of public opinion towards imperial rivalry of Great Britain and Germany in Africa.

Great Britain, German colonial policy, colonial rivalry, sphere of interest, British press, The Times

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