In "The Age of Empire" author Eric Hobsbawm argued that between 1875-1914 the new industrial powers annexed many of the territor
ies of the old colonial empires. Oddly, a few of these territories managed to avoid annexation because the industrial powers simply couldn't agree on how to divide them up. True or false?
Hello! Eric Hobsbawm was a British historian who wrote about those changes that sat at that time in Europe, the statement is true since the colonizers presented difficulties in the organization of the territories and their orderly classification.
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