The Routledge History of Western EmpiresRobert Aldrich, Kirsten McKenzie 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
the Portuguese and their empire as seen from early | |
Empires the Age of Revolutions and plantation America | |
indigenous experiences of European empire | |
British Danish and French colonial projects | |
PART II | |
Convict labour and the Western empires 14151954 | |
medicine in the Age of Empire | |
Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous animals | |
PART VI | |
transPacific passenger shipping in the age of steam | |
the imperial presence in urban India | |
Hill stations spas clubs safaris and colonial life | |
PART VII | |
the Netherlands Indies c | |
New dynamics and new imperial powers 18761905 | |
PART III | |
Empires of the Coral | |
science religion and the Western | |
PART IV | |
nineteenthcentury Western navies interactions | |
how empires shaped | |
The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic | |
PART V | |
Anthropology and the British Empire | |
At play on the football fields of empire? | |
Rome as an exemplar for Western imperialism | |
PART VIII | |
Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth | |
the curious case of Belgium and the Congo | |
Human rights and empire | |
empire and Republic in postwar France | |
imperial frictions Thinking through impediments in empire | |