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This chapter describes and analyzes the geopolitical dynamics of the Darien province during the 18th century, especially how the presence of foreigners on the coasts of the province and their economic and social relationship with the Cunas, indigenous to this territory, influenced the decisions policies of the Spanish colonists and military who inhabited the region during this season. The intention is to locate these relationships as a consequence of the political agency of the Cunas and not as a cause, as has been argued in other works, and how this agency allowed to keep the Darién away from the materialization of the policies proposed on paper and in the magnifying glass of the geopolitical interests of different European nations Este capítulo describe y analiza las dinámicas geopolíticas de la provincia del Darién durante el siglo XVIII, especialmente cómo la presencia de los extranjeros en las costas de la provincia y su relacionamiento económico y social con los cunas, indígenas de este territorio, incidieron en las decisiones políticas de los colonos y militares españoles que habitaron la re-gión durante esta temporalidad. La intención es ubicar estas relaciones como consecuencia de la agencia política de los cunas y no como causa, como se ha argumentado en otros trabajos, y cómo esta agencia permitió mantener al Darién alejado de la materialización de las políticas planteadas en el papel y en la lupa de los intereses geopolíticos de diferentes naciones europeas.

Colombia --- Cunas --- Darién --- Extranjeros --- Agencia política --- Colonos españoles

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This book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative.

Scots --- History --- Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies --- History. --- Darien (Panama and Colombia) --- New Caledonia (Colony)

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Community life --- Plantation life --- Rice farmers --- Farmers --- Rice workers --- Country life --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- History. --- Legare, John Girardeau, --- Darien (Ga.) --- Social life and customs.

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A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies. It explores these exaggerations through the concepts of El Dorado, utopias and dystopias - undertakings based on irrational perceived values - in case studies from across the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and incorporates imperial traditions including Scottish, British, French, German, Italian and American. Various colonial spaces are considered, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas, and in doing so, the contributors offer new insights into the nature of imperialism and colonial settlement.

Imperialism --- Imperialism --- Colonies --- Colonies --- Utopias. --- Dystopias. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Eldorado. --- Bambuk gold. --- British Mesopotamian El Dorado. --- Darien project. --- El Dorados. --- French Indochina. --- German Templer colonies. --- Greek expectations. --- Palestine. --- Patagonia. --- Scottish adventurism. --- Swan River Colony. --- colonial settlement. --- dystopias. --- imperial causality. --- imperialism. --- utopias.