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For, jeez, about a decade now I've been working on an alternate history project. Some tiny few of you may remember snippets of it, either here or even back on SHWI. While its POD is towards the end of the War of the Rebellion, a major divergence some years later is Germany.

In particular, I'd love to get input on how the imperial divvying-up of Africa would proceed with this different Germany. In broads strokes the differences are as follows:
* A much less cordial relationship with Austria(-Hungary) after taking a bit of territory (and other humiliations) after the Seven Weeks' War.
* No Wilhelm I and no Bismark after German unification, instead a government by Friedrich and a more liberal constitution and (presumably) National Liberal dominance. (Yes, I am aware of the arguments for Friedrich not being the Great Liberal Hope; but the reasons for the political situation are not dependent on him to the extent that would matter).
* Friedrich still smokes himself to ruin in despair over his son (combined with the stress of government), his son is by then quite anti-colony.


So how does the carving-up of Africa (and, to a lesser extent, the south west Pacific, the other German sphere) develop with (through ~1888) a pro-colony but Anglophilic Germany, and after that an anticolonial one? Consider also this will involve no (or a different) Berlin Conference.


I hope I am not impertinent in pinging @Jonathan Edelstein and @carlton_bach in particular, whose efforts cover this era and subject (and whose works I adore).
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