Securing empire : imperial cooperation and competition in the nineteenth century / edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci, and Erik de Lange.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graaf, Beatrice de, editor.

Lange, Erik de, editor.

Ozavci, Ozan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history. Taking a unique approach to imperial and international history, the essays in this volume show how security propelled imperial expansion, supported institutions of cooperation, maintained networks of imperial actors and shaped experiences of imperial rule. Contending that security should be studied as a force in its own right, one that drove processes of colonization, civilization and commerce, Securing Empire shows how cooperation between and across empires hinged on shared notions of threats and common ways of countering them. In showing that security did not solely inform, support and complicate unilateral imperial endeavours, but also brought different imperial entities together and forged global modes of government, this book shows how integral security was to the 'global transformation' of the 19th century and the new world order that emerged.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1: 'To give to the indigenous population the same security as to the Europeans': The Mixed Courts of Egypt and the financial-legal turn of the Eastern Question

Chapter 2: State rebuilding and the modernization of police organizations in Japan and Korea in the late nineteenth century

Chapter 3: 'Let them have what name they will': Piracy and transimperial cooperation from Barbary to the Americas

Chapter 4: Protecting the sanitary security of the American Empire in the 'Orient': US health measures in and beyond its Pacific colonies around 1900

Chapter 5: Securing Japan's civilized position in the world: Identity security and Japanese imperialism in the late nineteenth century

Chapter 6: From the Rhine to the Congo, via the Danube: Transimperial implantations of a European river regime, 1815-85

Chapter 7: Civil war and diplomacy: The 1860 intervention of the Great Powers in Ottoman Syria

Chapter 8: Creating empire, resisting empire: The Boxer Rebellion in China, 1899-1901

Chapter 9: Securing European civilization at the 1885 Berlin Conference and along the West African coast

Conclusion: Transimperial security practices, nineteenth-century style

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350411043

1350411043

9781350378537

1350378534

9781350378544

1350378542

OCLC:

1457641240