The Routledge History of Western EmpiresThe 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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Contents
the Portuguese and their empire | |
Empires the Age of Revolutions and plantation America | |
indigenous experiences of European | |
British Danish and French | |
PART II | |
Convict labour and the Western empires 14151954 | |
medicine in the | |
Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? | |
PART VI | |
transPacific passenger shipping | |
the imperial presence in urban India | |
Hill stations spas clubs safaris and colonial life | |
PART VII | |
At play on the football fields of empire? | |
New dynamics and new imperial powers 18761905 | |
PART III | |
Empires of the Coral | |
science religion and | |
PART IV | |
nineteenthcentury Western | |
The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic | |
PART V | |
Anthropology and the British Empire | |
Rome as an exemplar | |
PART VIII | |
JACOB NORRIS | |
the curious case of Belgium | |
Human rights and empire | |
empire and Republic in post | |
imperial frictions Thinking through impediments | |