Henk Wesseling

H. L. WESSELING is Professor of General History at the University of Leiden and Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study at Wassenaar. Previously he was the Director of the Centre for the History of European Expansion at Leiden (1975-1995). Dr. Wesseling is the author of Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 (Praeger, 1996), which has been translated into three languages.