Imperial expectations and realities (eBook, ePUB)

El Dorados, utopias and dystopias
Redaktion: Varnava, Andrekos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies. It explores these exaggerations through the concepts of El Dorado, utopias and dystopias - undertakings based on irrational perceived values - in case studies from across the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and incorporates imperial traditions including Scottish, British, French, German, Italian and American. Various colonial spaces are considered, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas, and in doing so, the contributors offer new insights into the nature of imperialism and colonial settlement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996475
• Artikelnr.: 48796588

Autorenporträt

Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University

Inhaltsangabe

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