The Routledge history of Western empires / (Record no. 3815)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415639873 (hbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781315879499 (ebk.) |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 909.09712 |
| Item number | ALD/R |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Routledge history of Western empires / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | History of Western empires |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 522 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 26 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction<br/>ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE<br/><br/>Why colonialism?<br/>ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE<br/><br/>PART I Mapping the imperial turn <br/>Introduction<br/>1. Spanish-Indian encounters: the conquest and creation of new empires / FELIX HINZ<br/>2. Floating Franks: the Portuguese and their empire as seen from early modem Asia / JORGE FLORES<br/>3. Empires, the Age of Revolutions and plantation America / TREVOR BURNARD<br/>4. Facing empire: indigenous expriences of European empire in comparative perspective, 1760-1820 / MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL AND KATE FULLAGAR<br/>5 .An early scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French colonial projects on the coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s / PERNILLE ROGE<br/><br/>PART II Planning empire<br/>Introduction<br/>6. The theory and practice of empire-building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and 'systematic colonisation' / TONY BALLANTYNE<br/>7. Convict labour and the Western empires, 1415-1954 / CLARE ANDERSON AND HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART<br/>8. New dynamics and new imperial powers, 1876-1905 / MARK I. CHOATE <br/><br/>PART III Locations of empire<br/>Introduction<br/>9. Empire at the floe edge: Western empires and indigenous peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820-1900 / ANNALIESE JACOBS<br/>10. Empires of the Coral Sea / CLIVE MOORE<br/>11. Colonialism in Palestine: science, religion and the Western appropriation of the Dead Sea in the long nineteenth century / JACOB NORRIS<br/><br/>PART IV People of empire<br/>Introduction<br/>12. Native women of the Americas in power (c. 1530-1880) / BLANCA TOVIAS<br/>13. Neighbourly relations: nineteenth-century Western interactions in the Asia-Pacific region / CINDY MCCREERY<br/>14. The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680-1900: bow empires shaped a modem nation / NICHOLAS DOUMANIS<br/>15. The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic / MARIE-PAULE HA<br/><br/>PART V Imperial sciences<br/>Introduction<br/>16. Expanding Flora's empire: Linnaean science and the Swedish East India Company / CHRISTINA SKOTT<br/>17. Anthropology and the British Empire / MARTIN E. THOMAS <br/>18. Health and disease in the colonies: medicine in the Age of Empire /LAURENCE MONNAIS AND HANS POLS<br/>19. Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous animals, transnational exchange and colonial identities / PKTKR HOBBINS<br/><br/>PART VI Imperial spaces<br/>Introduction<br/>20. Place and space in British imperial history writing / ALAN LESTER<br/>21. Lines across the sea: trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam / FRANCES STEEL<br/>22. Empire and city: the imperial presence in urban India / JIM MASSELOS<br/>23. Hill stations, spas, clubs, safiuis and colonial life / ERIC T. JENNINGS<br/><br/>PART VII Imperial cultures<br/>Introduction<br/>24. Ottoman art, empire and the Orientalism debate / MARY ROBERTS<br/>25. Environment and visual culture in the tropics: the Netherlands Indies, c. 1830-1949 / SUSIE PROTSCHKY<br/>26. At play on the football fields of empire? / JOHN CONNELL<br/>27. Pax Romana transposed: Rome as an exemplar for Western imperialism / PATRICIA M.E. LORCIN<br/><br/>PART VIII Maldng and unmaking empire<br/>Introduction<br/>28. British missions and missionaries in the high imperial era, c. 1857-1914 / JASON BRCNKR<br/>29. Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century / JOHN GASCOIGNE<br/>30. Violence and empire: the curious case of Belgium and the Congo / MATTHKW G. STANARD<br/>31. Human rights and empire / ROLAND BURKE<br/>32. Resisting decolonisation: empire and Republic in post-war France / MARTIN C. THOMAS<br/><br/>Epilogue: imperial fi4ctions. Thinking through impediments in empire history / ANTOINKTTK BUR TON |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Imperialism. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Europe |
| General subdivision | Colonies |
| -- | History. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | GN Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/06/2016 | 909.09712 ALD/R | P44387 | 10/02/2023 | General Books |