Imperial Expectations and Realities

Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University

• 1. 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 Jensz9. 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 Select bibliographyIndex