Imperial expectations and realities, El Dorados, utopias and dystopias, edited by Andrekos Varnava
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Imperial expectations and realities, El Dorados, utopias and dystopias, edited by Andrekos Varnava
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Imperial expectations and realities
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electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
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edited by Andrekos Varnava
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MUP - Manchester Studies in Imperialism
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El Dorados, utopias and dystopias
Table Of Contents
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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