Imperial Expectations and Realities : El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOUNDING EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement -- CHAPTER TWO Darién and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s -- CHAPTER THREE Greek expectations: Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815-64 -- CHAPTER FOUR Bambuk gold: General Faidherbe's Senegalese chimera1 -- CHAPTER FIVE Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony: health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia -- CHAPTER SIX Germany's El Dorado in the Pacific: metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1884 -1914 -- CHAPTER SEVEN A place to speak the 'language of heaven'? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise -- CHAPTER EIGHT Between heaven and earth: the German Templer colonies in Palestine -- CHAPTER NINE Italy's sexual El Dorado in Africa -- CHAPTER TEN Dreaming in the desert: Libya as Italy's promised land, 1911-70 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The British Mesopotamian El Dorado: the restoration of the Garden of Eden -- CHAPTER TWELVE Shattered images: French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource -- A tribute to Eric Richards -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.

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