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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. -- .
Table of Contents1. El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement – Andrekos Varnava
2. Darién and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s – Eric Richards
3. Greek expectations: Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815–64 – Leslie Rogne Schumacher
4. Bambuk gold: General Faidherbe’s Senegalese chimera – Leland Conley Barrows
5. Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony: health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia – Ruth Morgan
6. Germany’s El Dorado in the Pacific: metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1870–1930 – Holger Droessler
7. A place to speak the language of heaven? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise – Trevor Harris
8. Between heaven and earth: the German Templar colonies in Palestine – Matthew Fitzpatrick and Felicity Jensz
9. Italy’s sexual El Dorado in Africa – Daniela Baratieri
10. Dreaming in the desert: Libya as Italy’s Promised Land, 1911–70 – Giuseppe Finaldi
11. The British Mesopotamian El Dorado: the restoration of the Garden of Eden – Ann Matters
12. Shattered Images: French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource – John Hennessey
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