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• Imperialism [Browse]
• Europe—Colonies—History [Browse]

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• McKenzie, Kirsten [Browse]

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Routledge histories. [More in this series]

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The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Decolonisation. Studies by both well-known historians and new scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. Chapters examine colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. The Routledge History of Western Empires ranges over five centuries and crosses continents and oceans highlighting transnational and cross-cultural links in the imperial world and underscoring connections between colonial history and world history. Through lively and engaging case studies, contributors not only weigh in on historiographical debates on themes such as human rights, religion and empire, and the 'taproots' of imperialism, but also illustrate the various approaches to the writing of colonial history. A vital contribution to the field.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Why colonialism?
• Part I: Mapping the imperial turn
• 1. Spanish-Indian encounters: the conquest and creation of new empires
• The Caribbean-an imperial prelude
• Mexico-the foundation of a 'New Spain'
• Venezuela-the search for El Dorado
• Peru-invading the Empire of the Sun
• The Jesuit 'reductions'-God's country in the jungle?
• Notes
• Further reading
• 2. Floating Franks: the Portuguese and their empire as seen from early modern Asia
• The Estado da Índia
• Asian images of the Portuguese
• Conclusion
• 3. Empires, the Age of Revolutions and plantation America
• The mature plantation complex
• The plantation system and resistance
• 4. Facing empire: indigenous experiences of European empire in comparative perspective, 1760-1820
• North America
• South Pacific
• 5. An early scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French colonial projects on the coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s
• Colonies and the slave trade in the second half of the eighteenth century
• The British slave-free colony in Sierra Leone
• The Danish colonial project on the Gold Coast
• A French colonial project on the island of Borodo
• Part II: Planning empire
• 6. The theory and practice of empire-building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and 'systematic colonisation'
• 7. Convict labour and the Western empires, 1415-1954
• Defining convict transportation
• The imperial scale and reach of penal transportation
• The Portuguese Empire
• The Spanish Empire
• The French Empire.
• The British Empire
• Convict transportation and Western imperialism
• 8. New dynamics and new imperial powers, 1876-1905
• Paper borders, Maxim bullets
• The colonialism of 'economic exploitation'
• Settlement colonialism in the age of mass migration
• The motives of empire?
• The idea of 'imperialism'
• A clash of races
• Part III: Locations of empire
• 9. Empire at the floe edge: Western empires and indigenous peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820-1900
• The Russian maritime fur trade and Unangan chiefs
• The friction of the floe edge: shore whaling in northern Alaska
• 10. Empires of the Coral Sea
• The Coral Sea
• Indigenous peoples of the Coral Sea
• The Australian colonies and the Coral Sea
• Island Melanesia and the labour trade
• Colonial partition of the Coral Sea
• French New Caledonia
• The British in the Coral Sea: Fiji
• New Hebrides
• Solomon Islands
• Germany, Britain and Australia in New Guinea
• 11. Colonialism in Palestine: science, religion and the Western appropriation of the Dead Sea in the long nineteenth century
• Dead Sea exploration and the compilation of a canon of expertise
• Acting upon the landscape: the Dead Sea as a colonial resource
• Part IV: People of empire
• 12. Native women of the Americas in power (c. 1530-1880)
• Marriage alliances between natives and newcomers
• Encomenderas in Iberian America
• Colonial women chieftains: cacicas or kurakas, andcapullanas
• Women as war leaders during the Great Andean Rebellion
• First Nations women and empire-building north of the Rio Grande
• Native women of the American West
• The limits of empire: women of the Great Plains.
• The patriarchal legacy of empire
• 13. Neighbourly relations: nineteenth-century Western navies' interactions in the Asia-Pacific region
• Scientific voyages to Sydney
• Japan and China, 1860s-1870s
• Flying the flag voyages: HMS Galatea 1867-1871 to the Great White Fleet 1907-1909
• 14. The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680-1900: how empires shaped a modern nation
• The Graeco-Roman Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Orthodoxy
• In the sultan's service
• 15. The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic
• Familial colonialism
• Forced celibacy and concubinage
• Repopulating France through colonisation
• The empire as 'outlet' for single women
• The colonial feminine mystique
• The making of the colonial French home
• 'Frenchify the table'
• Re-civilising process
• Part V: Imperial sciences
• 16. Expanding Flora's empire: Linnaean science and the Swedish East India Company
• 17. Anthropology and the British Empire
• Defining the terrain
• Empire and the 'science of man'
• Anthropology in practice: views from the field
• View 1: M.V. Portman advises on photography
• View 2: Donald Thomson reports on Arnhem Land
• Beyond empire
• 18. Health and disease in the colonies: medicine in the Age of Empire
• The era of exploration: health and the tropical climate before 1800
• Imperial expansion and medical pessimism in the nineteenth century
• The advent of modern public health
• Germs, parasites, insects and nematodes
• 'Colonising the body': tropical medicine as a tool of medicalisation?
• Conclusions
• Further reading.
• 19. Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous animals, transnational exchange and colonial identities
• An animal matrix of co-colonisation
• Designating danger
• A Republic of Poison Letters
• Part VI: Imperial spaces
• 20. Place and space in British imperial history writing
• Britain and empire
• Space
• 21. Lines across the sea: trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam
• 'Practical imperialism' on the 'ocean of the future'
• Between the wars: an American lake?
• Concluding thoughts
• 22. Empire and city: the imperial presence in urban India
• City and emperor: the Mughal practice
• Company towns
• Capital cities of the raj
• The colonial port city
• Mughal memories
• 23. Hill stations, spas, clubs, safaris and colonial life
• Gender dynamics and opportunities
• Ennui, nostalgia and neurasthenia
• Disease and colonial countermeasures
• Hill stations
• Colonial spas
• The club
• Clothing and food
• Hunting
• Part VII: Imperial cultures
• 24. Ottoman art, empire and the Orientalism debate
• Art and diplomacy
• Cultural patrimony
• Gender and Orientalism
• 25. Environment and visual culture in the tropics: the Netherlands Indies, c. 1830-1949
• Backdrop as foreground: environment and histories of imperialism
• Visual perspectives on environment and empire
• The 'beautiful Indies'
• The politics of beautiful Indies landscapes
• The splendour of endeavour: landscape photography from the Indies
• 26. At play on the football fields of empire?
• Commerce, sport and empire
• Recreation and empire
• Order and resistance.
• A local sport?
• Creating national identity
• Epilogue: a post-colonial legacy
• 27. Pax Romana transposed: Rome as an exemplar for Western imperialism
• Pax Britannica: from empire to peace
• Pax Gallica: bearing the mantle of Rome
• Pax Americana: war and peace across the globe
• Part VIII: Making and unmaking empire
• 28. British missions and missionaries in the high imperial era, c. 1857-1914
• Nigeria: mission ahead of empire
• China: mission beyond the empire
• India: mission within the empire
• 29. Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century
• Acknowledgement
• 30. Violence and empire: the curious case of Belgium and the Congo
• Belgium's colonial past and the violence of Leopoldian rule
• Western colonial violence and the historiography of Belgian imperialism
• 31. Human rights and empire
• Anti-colonialism as human rights movement?
• Humanitarian imperialists: empire, its abuses and its critics
• Sacred trusteeship and human rights? Civilisations, development and welfare
• The right to self-determination: colonialism recast as a human rights violation, 1950-1960
• Conclusions: a world made new? Human rights after empire
• 32. Resisting decolonisation: empire and Republic in post-war France
• Epilogue: imperial frictions. Thinking through impediments in empire history
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-317-99986-X
• 1-315-87949-2
• 1-317-99987-8

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