The discovery of rich mineral deposits in the Belgian Congo made colonial development schemes increasingly attractive.
The 165 rooms do not shy away from the weight of history either, highlighting architectural woodworking and sticking to a dark, colonial colour scheme.
Reprisal as a form of improvised justice was traced by some academics to Brazil's colonial times and the scheming of elite landowners and their armed supporters.
He took over the bankrupt banking business of an uncle of the same name in Paris and made a fortune from the collapse of John Law's Mississippi Scheme (a colonial development project whose profits could not match the expectations stirred up by speculators).
In Mozambique and Angola, too, settler numbers remained small, despite Portugal's schemes to encourage colonial immigration.
The Portuguese colonial state developed rural settlement schemes during the late colonial era, and shortly after independence the national government strongly promoted communal village and state farm projects, all of which fostered denser rural settlement, particularly in the south.
Some historians such as argue that he was more of a politician than a humanitarian, and that his liberation policies were always combined with schemes to make colonial extraction of resources from the natives more efficient.
Today, pastoralists are more constrained in their movements and management options due to higher human and livestock populations and a variety of other factors beyond their control (e.g., land subdivision, colonial, and post-colonial land settlement schemes).
After Loch's return to England in April 1895, Rhodes adopted his scheme (though seeking local colonial rather than imperial control over the Transvaal and its gold fields), which led to the abortive Jameson Raid in December 1895.
His development scheme, which he implemented as colonial treasurer (1869 72) and prime minister (1873 75, 1876), entailed the building of transportation and communication facilities and other public works.
