The Routledge History of Western Empires

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Museums, Monuments and Colonial Memories (2005) and Gay Life Stories (2012) and editor of The Age of Empires (2007). Kirsten Mckenzie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1820 – 1850 (2004) and A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (2009).

Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, Introduction Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, 'Why Colonialism?’ Section 1: Mapping the Imperial Turn Introduction 1 Felix Hinz, ‘Spanish-Indian Encounters: The Conquest and Creation of New Empires’ 2 Jorge Flores, ‘Floating Franks: The Portuguese and their Empire as seen from Early Modern Asia’ 3 Trevor Burnard, ‘Empires, the Age of Revolution and Plantation America’ 4 Michael A. McDonnell and Kate Fullagar, ‘Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences of European Empire in Comparative Perspective, 1760–1820’ 5 Pernille Røge, ‘An Early Scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French Colonial Projects on the Coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s’ Section 2: Planning Empire Introduction 6 Tony Ballantyne, ‘The Theory and Practice of Empire Building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and "Systematic Colonisation"’ 7 Clare Anderson and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Convict Labour and the Western Empires, 1415–1954’ 8 Mark I. Choate, ‘New Dynamics and New Imperial Powers, 1876–1905’ Section 3: Locations of Empire Introduction 9 Annaliese Jacobs, ‘Empire at the Floe Edge: Western Empires and Indigenous Peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820–1900’ 10 Clive Moore, ‘Empires of the Coral Sea’ 11 Jacob Norris, ‘Colonialism in Palestine: Science, Religion and the Western Appropriation of the Dead Sea in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Section 4: People of Empire Introduction 12 Blanca Tovías, ‘Native Women of the Americas in Power (c. 1530–1880)’ 13 Cindy McCreery, ‘Neighbourly Relations: Nineteenth-Century Western Navies’ Interactions in the Asia-Pacific Region’ 14 Nicholas Doumanis, ‘The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680–1900: How Empires Shaped a Modern Nation’ 15 Marie-Paule Ha, ‘The Making of the Coloniale