Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe

Bernhard C. Schär is Eccellenza Professor at University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He specializes on 19th-century global and imperial history of Europe with a focus on entanglements in South and Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, and Brazil.Mikko Toivanen is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His work deals with the Dutch and British Empires in 19th-century Southeast Asia, with a focus on transimperial connections and the development of colonial cities.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction - Expansion alongside integration: a new history of imperial Europe? Bernhard C. Schär, University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Mikko Toivanen, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyEuropean entanglements in overseas colonial networks across imperial borders1. Preacher, trader, soldier, spy: studying transimperial individuals through their occupational roles, John Hennessey, Lund University, Sweden2. Small numbers – lasting impact. ‘Marginal’ Europeans in Brazil’s slave-based economy, 1808—1888, André Nicacio Lima, Brazil3. A villa for the world: prefabricated houses, national romanticism and Norwegian colonial entanglements, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, University of Bergen, Norway4. Swiss colonial business in the Transvaal: the involvement of the DuBois family, watchmakers in Neuchâtel (late nineteenth century) Fabio Rossinelli, University of Lausanne, Switzerland5. Imperial entanglements: Poles and Serbs in colonial East and Southeast Asia in the long nineteenth century, Tomasz Ewertowski, Shanghai International Studies University, ChinaConstructing and negotiating European identities in a colonial world order6. Three days from civilization: transnational scientific imagination and nineteenth-century Iceland, Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland7. Orientalist knowledge from the margins: the colonial entanglement of nineteenth-century Hungarian research on Inner Asia Szabolcs László, Institute of History, Hungary8. Collections of a rural empire: museums, colonial ethnography, and the European countryside, Corinne Geering, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Germany9. Traveling the Arctic margins: promoting and experiencing Petsamo as a colonial frontier, Janne Lahti, University of Helsinki, Finland10. Collective colonialism for European integration: the rise of the Paneuropean movement in post-imperial Austria, Lucile Dreidemy, University of Vienna, Austria & Eric Burton, University of Innsbruck, AustriaAfterword, Manuela Boatca, University of Freiburg, GermanyBibliographyIndex

Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe is an important voice in the discussion about European identity in relation both to itself, its constitutive parts, and the outside world. Such discussion is needed.