Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe : At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 /

<B>This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. </b>It does so by inquiring how smaller European powers and regions at the margins of the continent integrated into a globally interconnected world that was heavi...

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Other Authors: Schar, Bernhard C. (Editor), Toivanen, Mikko (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors Introduction
  • Expansion alongside integration: a new history of imperial Europe? Bernhard C. Schar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Mikko Toivanen, Freie Universitat 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, Andre Nicacio Lima, Brazil 3. A villa for the world: prefabricated houses, national romanticism and Norwegian colonial entanglements, Tonje Haugland Sorensen, University of Bergen, Norway 4. Swiss colonial business in the Transvaal: the involvement of the DuBois family, watchmakers in Neuchatel (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, Kristin Loftsdottir, University of Iceland, Iceland 7. Orientalist knowledge from the margins: the colonial entanglement of nineteenth-century Hungarian research on Inner Asia Szabolcs Laszlo, 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 Bibliography Index