The Routledge history of Western empires / edited by Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE

Why colonialism?
ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE

PART I Mapping the imperial turn
Introduction
1. Spanish-Indian encounters: the conquest and creation of new empires / FELIX HINZ
2. Floating Franks: the Portuguese and their empire as seen from early modem Asia / JORGE FLORES
3. Empires, the Age of Revolutions and plantation America / TREVOR BURNARD
4. Facing empire: indigenous expriences of European empire in comparative perspective, 1760-1820 / MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL AND KATE FULLAGAR
5 .An early scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French colonial projects on the coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s / PERNILLE ROGE

PART II Planning empire
Introduction
6. The theory and practice of empire-building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and 'systematic colonisation' / TONY BALLANTYNE
7. Convict labour and the Western empires, 1415-1954 / CLARE ANDERSON AND HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART
8. New dynamics and new imperial powers, 1876-1905 / MARK I. CHOATE

PART III Locations of empire
Introduction
9. Empire at the floe edge: Western empires and indigenous peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820-1900 / ANNALIESE JACOBS
10. Empires of the Coral Sea / CLIVE MOORE
11. Colonialism in Palestine: science, religion and the Western appropriation of the Dead Sea in the long nineteenth century / JACOB NORRIS

PART IV People of empire
Introduction
12. Native women of the Americas in power (c. 1530-1880) / BLANCA TOVIAS
13. Neighbourly relations: nineteenth-century Western interactions in the Asia-Pacific region / CINDY MCCREERY
14. The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680-1900: bow empires shaped a modem nation / NICHOLAS DOUMANIS
15. The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic / MARIE-PAULE HA

PART V Imperial sciences
Introduction
16. Expanding Flora's empire: Linnaean science and the Swedish East India Company / CHRISTINA SKOTT
17. Anthropology and the British Empire / MARTIN E. THOMAS
18. Health and disease in the colonies: medicine in the Age of Empire /LAURENCE MONNAIS AND HANS POLS
19. Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous animals, transnational exchange and colonial identities / PKTKR HOBBINS

PART VI Imperial spaces
Introduction
20. Place and space in British imperial history writing / ALAN LESTER
21. Lines across the sea: trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam / FRANCES STEEL
22. Empire and city: the imperial presence in urban India / JIM MASSELOS
23. Hill stations, spas, clubs, safiuis and colonial life / ERIC T. JENNINGS

PART VII Imperial cultures
Introduction
24. Ottoman art, empire and the Orientalism debate / MARY ROBERTS
25. Environment and visual culture in the tropics: the Netherlands Indies, c. 1830-1949 / SUSIE PROTSCHKY
26. At play on the football fields of empire? / JOHN CONNELL
27. Pax Romana transposed: Rome as an exemplar for Western imperialism / PATRICIA M.E. LORCIN

PART VIII Maldng and unmaking empire
Introduction
28. British missions and missionaries in the high imperial era, c. 1857-1914 / JASON BRCNKR
29. Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century / JOHN GASCOIGNE
30. Violence and empire: the curious case of Belgium and the Congo / MATTHKW G. STANARD
31. Human rights and empire / ROLAND BURKE
32. Resisting decolonisation: empire and Republic in post-war France / MARTIN C. THOMAS

Epilogue: imperial fi4ctions. Thinking through impediments in empire history / ANTOINKTTK BUR TON