Dierk Schmidt : The Division of the Earth: Tableaux on the Legal

Dierk Schmidt : The Division of the Earth: Tableaux on the Legal
n 1884, the governments of western Europe and the USA met in Berlin to prepare the division of the entire African continent through an international act of law. Dierk Schmidt´s recuperation and visual elaboration of the documents attending this act is based on years of research, and is compiled in this volume--a clear-eyed response to the clear-eyed brutality of this decisive occasion.