Protection and Empire: A Global History - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108417868 ISBN 13: 9781108417860

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

An innovative volume tracing the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. A group of leading scholars offer a new way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncover new dimensions of the relation of empires to regional and global order.

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Reseña del editor:

For five centuries protection has provided a basic currency for organising relations between polities. Protection underpinned sprawling tributary systems, permeated networks of long-distance trade, reinforced claims of royal authority in distant colonies and structured treaties. Empires made routine use of protection as they extended their influence, projecting authority over old and new subjects, forcing weaker parties to pay them for safe conduct and, sometimes, paying for it themselves. The result was a fluid politics that absorbed both the powerful and the weak while giving rise to institutions and jurisdictional arrangements with broad geographic scope and influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to trace the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Employing a global lens, it offers an innovative way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncovers new dimensions of the relation of empires to regional and global order.

Biografía del autor:

Lauren Benton is Nelson Tyrone Jr Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She is a comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history.

Adam Clulow is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria. He is a global historian whose work focuses especially on European interaction with Tokugawa Japan and the maritime history of early modern Asia.

Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University, Victoria. He has published extensively on the history of settler colonialism.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1108417868
• ISBN 13: 9781108417860
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Herausgeber: Benton Lauren, Clulow Adam, Attwood Bain