Imperial expectations and realities : El Dorados, utopias and dystopias /

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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 uses case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and incorpora...

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Otros Autores: Varnava, Andrekos (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dystopier.
Utopier.
Kolonier.
Imperialism.
Kolonie
Anti-Utopie
Utopie
Utopias.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Imperialism > Economic aspects.
Dystopias.
Colonies > Social conditions.
Colonies > Economic conditions.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
dystopias.
utopias.
utopian literature.
Dystopies.
Utopies.
Colonies > Conditions economiques.
Colonies > Conditions sociales.
Imperialisme > Aspect economique.
Imperialisme > Aspect social.
Imperialisme > Histoire.
Imperialism > History.
Eldorado
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement / Andrekos Varnava
  • Darien and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s / Eric Richards
  • Greek expectations : Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815-64 / Leslie Rogne Schumacher
  • Bambuk gold : General Faidherbe's Senegalese chimera / Leland Conley Barrows
  • Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony : health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia / Ruth A. Morgan
  • Germany's El Dorado in the Pacific : metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1884-1914 / Holger Droessler
  • A place to speak the 'language of heaven' ? Patagonia as land of broken Welsh promise / Trevor Harris
  • Between heaven and earth : the German Templer colonies in Palestine / Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Felicity Jensz
  • Italy's sexual El Dorado in Africa / Daniela Baratieri
  • Dreaming in the desert : Libya as Italy's promised land, 1911-70 / Giuseppe Finaldi
  • The British Mesopotamian El Dorado : the restoration of the Garden of Eden / Ann Matters
  • Shattered images : French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource / John Hennessey.

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