Andrew Phillips

How the East Was Won (eBook, PDF)

Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009064378
• Artikelnr.: 66177354

Autorenporträt

was born in Southampton in 1954, and so I was there when the rise of pop music was taking place in the 1960's, led by The Beatles. I have been a life-long Beatles fan since January 1963, and an avid collector of Beatles memorabilia. I developed a soft spot for The Applejacks in 1964, and since the late 1990's I have also been collecting Applejacks memorabilia. I am also generally interested in many genres of music, and this has resulted in the culmination of a large record/CD collection. My working life was technically based. I attended Sheffield University, graduating with an honours degree in Physics in 1975, and then I obtained a Ph.D in High Energy Physics. I had 40 years in industry, as a nuclear safety consultant, before retiring in 2019. I am now enjoying doing the things that my hectic working life didn't always give enough time for. The writing of this book, telling the story of The Applejacks, fulfils one of my retirement ambitions.I live in Sutton, Surrey with my fiancée Xuejun (Luoluo).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won
2. The Eurasian transformation
3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires
4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia
5. The great Asian divergence - Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century
6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820
7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.