Robin A Butlin

Geographies of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive overview of how the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experienced imperialism and colonisation from 1880 to 1960.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 692
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1361g
• ISBN-13: 9780521740555
• ISBN-10: 052174055X
• Artikelnr.: 25686872

Autorenporträt

Robin A. Butlin is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 (co-edited with M. Bell and M. Heffernan, 1995), Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time (1993), and, co-edited with R. A. Dodgshon, An Historical Geography of England and Wales (2nd edition 1990), and An Historical Geography of Europe (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geography, imperialism and colonialism: concepts and frameworks
2. Chronologies, spaces and places
3. Numbers and movements of people
4. Patterns and shadows on the land
5. Empire, exploration and geographical knowledge
6. Geographical societies and imperialism
7. The mapping of empires and colonies
8. Geographies of the 'Civilizing Mission'
9. Environmental interactions
10. The arteries of empire: transport and communications
11. Towns and cities
12. Economic geographies of empire and colony
13. The endings of empire: decolonization
14. Conclusion.