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 Contributors
Introduction - Expansion alongside integration: a new history of imperial Europe? Bernhard C. Schär, University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Mikko Toivanen, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
European entanglements in overseas colonial networks across imperial borders
1. Preacher, trader, soldier, spy: studying transimperial individuals through their occupational roles, John Hennessey, Lund University, Sweden
2. Small numbers – lasting impact. ‘Marginal’ Europeans in Brazil’s slave-based economy, 1808—1888, André Nicacio Lima, Brazil
3. A villa for the world: prefabricated houses, national romanticism and Norwegian colonial entanglements, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, University of Bergen, Norway
4. Swiss colonial business in the Transvaal: the involvement of the DuBois family, watchmakers in Neuchâtel (late nineteenth century) Fabio Rossinelli, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
5. Imperial entanglements: Poles and Serbs in colonial East and Southeast Asia in the long nineteenth century, Tomasz Ewertowski, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Constructing and negotiating European identities in a colonial world order
6. Three days from civilization: transnational scientific imagination and nineteenth-century Iceland, Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
7. Orientalist knowledge from the margins: the colonial entanglement of nineteenth-century Hungarian research on Inner Asia Szabolcs László, Institute of History, Hungary
8. Collections of a rural empire: museums, colonial ethnography, and the European countryside, Corinne Geering, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Germany
9. Traveling the Arctic margins: promoting and experiencing Petsamo as a colonial frontier, Janne Lahti, University of Helsinki, Finland
10. 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, Austria
Afterword, Manuela Boatca, University of Freiburg, Germany
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