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Informationen zum Autor Andrekos Varnava is Associate Professor in Modern History at Flinders University Klappentext A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion! and the mismatch between intention! perception and hype! and the actual realities. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Jensz9. 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 bibliographyIndex
