Palmerston and Africa: Rio Nunez Affair, Competition, Diplomacy and Justice

Author/Contributor(s):	Braithwaite, Roderick ; Ridley, Jasper
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Date:	09/23/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.