Imperial expectations and realities : El Dorados, utopias and dystopias /: El Dorados, utopias and dystopias. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrekos Varnava.
• Other Names: Varnava, Andrekos
• Contents: El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement / Andrekos Varnava -- Darién 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.
• Publisher Details: Manchester [U.K.] : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages)
• Subjects: 325/.3209; Imperialism -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects; Imperialism -- Economic aspects; Colonies -- Social conditions; Colonies -- Economic conditions; Utopias; Dystopias; Colonies -- Economic conditions; Colonies -- Social conditions; Dystopias; Imperialism; Imperialism -- Economic aspects; Imperialism -- Social aspects; Utopias; Utopie; Anti-Utopie; Kolonie; Imperialism; Kolonier; Utopier; Dystopier; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; Eldorado; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784997090; 1784997099
• Related ISBNs: 9780719097867; 071909786X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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