Chapters examine colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. Studies by both well-known historians and new scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. the Age of Discovery to the Age of Decolonisation. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European overseas expansion from. The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. The Routledge History of Western Empires (Hardback)Įdited by Aldrich, Robert McKenzie, Kirsten
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