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Imperial expectations and realities

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A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.
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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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Price: £90.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Publication Date: 01 September 2015
ISBN: 9780719097867
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, European history

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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
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