AHC No 19th Century European Imperialism

How could you prevent or stop the massive wave of Imperialism in the later 19th century? POD can be no earlier than 1750.
 
Part of the reason the Scramble for Africa (I assume that's what you're primarily referring to) got going was the discovery of a cure for malaria, which meant that it was now possible to send armies to the tropics without seeing 3/4 of them die from disease. Butterfly that away, and it would have been much harder and less economical for Europeans to expand into the African interior.

On the military side, you might want to butterfly away the minie ball and/or breach-loading guns. Keeping your Europeans equipped with smoothbore muskets and cannons would reduce the technological gap between them and sub-Saharan Africa.
 
It would require to significantly delay european industrialisation. The less implausible way would be to nerf England, as it had OTL both the ressources and the capital for undergo this change and eventually launch it in Europe.

It wouldn't be delayed much, but if you have a longer mercantilist and manufactorian capitalism (aka more a statist initiative than going from private capital) you may end with a different industrialisation (not that much different tough, such stuff isn't going to last forever) and with European powers that while effectivly taking over African coasts and rivals (I'm thinking of Asia), would have less immediate interest on taking over all the world.

But eventually, it would appear. At least you have some chances to end with a 20th century European Imperialism :D (Yeah, that's cheating. But I won't apologize).
 
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