{"product_id":"imperial-expectations-and-realities-9780719097867","title":"Imperial expectations and realities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. El Dorados, utopias and dystopias in imperialism and colonial settlement – Andrekos Varnava \u003cbr\u003e2. Darién and the psychology of Scottish adventurism in the 1690s – Eric Richards \u003cbr\u003e3. Greek expectations: Britain and the Ionian Islands, 1815–64 – Leslie Rogne Schumacher \u003cbr\u003e4. Bambuk gold: General Faidherbe’s Senegalese chimera – Leland Conley Barrows \u003cbr\u003e5. Salubrity and the survival of the Swan River Colony: health, climate and settlement in colonial Western Australia – Ruth Morgan \u003cbr\u003e6. Germany’s El Dorado in the Pacific: metropolitan representations and colonial realities, 1870–1930 – Holger Droessler \u003cbr\u003e7. A place to speak the language of heaven? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise – Trevor Harris \u003cbr\u003e8. Between heaven and earth: the German Templar colonies in Palestine – Matthew Fitzpatrick and Felicity Jensz\u003cbr\u003e9. Italy’s sexual El Dorado in Africa – Daniela Baratieri \u003cbr\u003e10. Dreaming in the desert: Libya as Italy’s Promised Land, 1911–70 – Giuseppe Finaldi \u003cbr\u003e11. The British Mesopotamian El Dorado: the restoration of the Garden of Eden – Ann Matters \u003cbr\u003e12. Shattered Images: French Indochina as a failed symbolic resource – John Hennessey \u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037356327255,"sku":"9780719097867","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719097867.jpg?v=1750935420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imperial-expectations-and-realities-9780719097867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}