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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.
Contents
Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, Introduction Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, 'Why Colonialism?' Section 1: Mapping the Imperial Turn Introduction 1 Felix Hinz, 'Spanish-Indian Encounters: The Conquest and Creation of New Empires' 2 Jorge Flores, 'Floating Franks: The Portuguese and their Empire as seen from Early Modern Asia' 3 Trevor Burnard, 'Empires, the Age of Revolution and Plantation America' 4 Michael A. McDonnell and Kate Fullagar, 'Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences of European Empire in Comparative Perspective, 1760-1820' 5 Pernille Røge, 'An Early Scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French Colonial Projects on the Coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s' Section 2: Planning Empire Introduction 6 Tony Ballantyne, 'The Theory and Practice of Empire Building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and "Systematic Colonisation"' 7 Clare Anderson and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, 'Convict Labour and the Western Empires, 1415-1954' 8 Mark I. Choate, 'New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876-1905' Section 3: Locations of Empire Introduction 9 Annaliese Jacobs, 'Empire at the Floe Edge: Western Empires and Indigenous Peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820-1900' 10 Clive Moore, 'Empires of the Coral Sea' 11 Jacob Norris, 'Colonialism in Palestine: Science, Religion and the Western Appropriation of the Dead Sea in the Long Nineteenth Century' Section 4: People of Empire Introduction 12 Blanca Tovías, 'Native Women of the Americas in Power (c. 1530-1880)' 13 Cindy McCreery, 'Neighbourly Relations: Nineteenth-Century Western Navies' Interactions in the Asia-Pacific Region' 14 Nicholas Doumanis, 'The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680-1900: How Empires Shaped a Modern Nation' 15 Marie-Paule Ha, 'The Making of the Coloniale under the Third Republic' Section 5: Imperial Sciences Introduction 16 Christina Skott, 'Expanding Flora's Empire: Linnaean Science and the Swedish East India Company' 17 Martin E. Thomas, 'Anthropology and the British Empire' 18 Laurence Monnais and Hans Pols, 'Health and Disease in the Colonies: Medicine in the Age of Empire' 19 Peter Hobbins, 'Imperial Science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous Animals, Transnational Exchange and Colonial Identities' Section 6: Imperial Spaces Introduction 20 Alan Lester, 'Place and Space in British Imperial History Writing' 21 Frances Steel, 'Lines across the Sea: Trans-Pacific Passenger Shipping in the Age of Steam' 22 Jim Masselos, 'Empire and City: The Imperial Presence in Urban India' 23 Eric T. Jennings, 'Hill Stations, Spas, Clubs, Safaris and Colonial Life' Section 7: Imperial Cultures Introduction 24 Mary Roberts, 'Ottoman Art, Empire and the Orientalism Debate' 25 Susie Protschky, 'Environment and Visual Culture in the Tropics: The Netherlands Indies, c. 1830-1949' 26 John Connell, 'At Play on the Football Fields of Empire?' 27 Patricia M.E. Lorcin, 'Pax Romana Transposed: Rome as an Exemplar for Western Imperialism' Section 8: Making and Unmaking Empire Introduction 28 Jason Bruner, 'British Missions and Missionaries in the High Imperial Era, c. 1857-1914' 29 John Gascoigne, 'Religion and Empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century' 30 Matthew G. Stanard, 'Violence and Empire: The Curious Case of Belgium and the Congo' 31 Roland Burke, 'Human Rights and Empire' 32 Martin C. Thomas, 'Resisting Decolonisation: Empire and Republic in Post-War France' Antoinette Burton, Afterword
