Securing Empire

Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century

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Securing Empire

Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Historicizing Security in an Age of Empires, Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci & Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Part I - Actors, Allies and Adversaries

1. Dynamics and Limits of the Anglo-French Global Condominium, 1820-1880, David Todd (Sciences Po Paris, France)
2. The Egyptian Mixed Courts: Negotiating a Nexus Between Property, Progress, Justice and Security in a Situation of Imperial Entanglement, 1867-1875, Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
3. State Rebuilding and the Modernization of Police Organizations in Korea and Japan, Seo-Hyun Park (Lafayette College, USA)

Part II - Threats and Interests: Imperial Anxieties

4. 'Let Them Have What Name They Will': Piracy and Imperial Encroachment from North Africa to the Americas, Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
5. Protecting the Health of the American Empire in the “Orient”: U.S. Sanitary Measures in and Beyond its Pacific Colonies (c. 1898-1910), Andrea Wiegeshoff (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
6. Securitising 'Civilised' Identity in Asia: The Case of Japanese Imperialism, Shogo Suzuki (University of Manchester, UK)

Part III - Practices: Enacting and Contesting Security

7. Imperial Cooperation at the Rhine and Lower Danube: European Riverine Commissions and the Financial Dimension of Security, Constantin Ardeleanu & Joep Schenk (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
8. Returning the Sense of Security: The 1860 Civil War in Ottoman Syria and the European Commission, Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
9. Creating Empire, Resisting Empire: Visions of Security in the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1902, David Silbey (Cornell University, USA)
10. Forgetting Two Histories: European Institutional Models, Empty Spaces, and the Failure of the 1885 Congo River Commission, Joanne Yo (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Conclusion: Junction 1815, An Epilogue: Globalising the History of European Peace and Security After the Congress of Vienna, Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Product details

Published Nov 14 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781350378520
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Beatrice de Graaf

Anthology Editor

Ozan Ozavci

Anthology Editor

Erik de Lange

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