Bambuk gold
British Mesopotamian El Dorado
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colonial settlement
Darien project
dystopias
El Dorados
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French Indochina
German Templer colonies
Greek expectations
imperial causality
imperialism
Palestine
Patagonia
Scottish adventurism
Swan River Colony
utopias
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- ISBN 9780719097867
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University
