The Routledge History of Western Empires

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-63987-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 1076 g

Reihe: Routledge Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldrich, Robert

McKenzie, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Museums, Monuments and Colonial Memories (2005) and Gay Life Stories (2012) and editor of The Age of Empires (2007).
Kirsten Mckenzie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1820 – 1850 (2004) and A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (2009).