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Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
Andrekos Varnava (Ed.)
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Description for Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
Hardcover. A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. Editor(s): Varnava, Andrekos. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097867
SKU
V9780719097867
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About Andrekos Varnava (Ed.)
Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University -- .
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