A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.
A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University
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1. El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement Andrekos Varnava 2. Darién and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s Eric Richards 3. Greek expectations: Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815 64 Leslie Rogne Schumacher 4. Bambuk gold: General Faidherbe's Senegalese chimera Leland Conley Barrows 5. Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony: health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia Ruth Morgan 6. Germany's El Dorado in the Pacific: metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1870 1930 Holger Droessler 7. A place to speak the language of heaven? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise Trevor Harris 8. Between heaven and earth: the German Templar colonies in Palestine Matthew Fitzpatrick and Felicity Jensz 9. Italy's sexual El Dorado in Africa Daniela Baratieri 10. Dreaming in the desert: Libya as Italy's Promised Land, 1911 70 Giuseppe Finaldi 11. The British Mesopotamian El Dorado: the restoration of the Garden of Eden Ann Matters 12. Shattered Images: French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource John Hennessey Select bibliography Index
1. El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement Andrekos Varnava 2. Darién and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s Eric Richards 3. Greek expectations: Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815 64 Leslie Rogne Schumacher 4. Bambuk gold: General Faidherbe's Senegalese chimera Leland Conley Barrows 5. Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony: health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia Ruth Morgan 6. Germany's El Dorado in the Pacific: metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1870 1930 Holger Droessler 7. A place to speak the language of heaven? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise Trevor Harris 8. Between heaven and earth: the German Templar colonies in Palestine Matthew Fitzpatrick and Felicity Jensz 9. Italy's sexual El Dorado in Africa Daniela Baratieri 10. Dreaming in the desert: Libya as Italy's Promised Land, 1911 70 Giuseppe Finaldi 11. The British Mesopotamian El Dorado: the restoration of the Garden of Eden Ann Matters 12. Shattered Images: French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource John Hennessey Select bibliography Index
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