Protection and Empire (eBook, ePUB)

A Global History
Redaktion: Benton, Lauren

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108284981
• Artikelnr.: 49987964

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Protecting Subjects, Projecting Power: 1. Protection
and the chanelling of movement on the margins of the Holy Roman Empire Luca
Scholz; 2. Containing law within the walls: the protection of customary law
in Santiago Del Cercado, Peru Karen B. Graubart; Part II. Conquest
Reconsidered: 3 Webs of protection and interpolity zones in the Early
Modern World Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow; 4. Plunder and profit in the
name of protection: royal Iberian armadas in the early Atlantic Gabriel De
Avilez Rocha; Part III. Protection and Languages of Political Authority: 5.
Protection as a political concept in English political thought, 1603-51
Annabel Brett; 6. Limited liabilities: the corporation and the political
economy of protection in the British Empire Philip J. Stern; 7. From
nurturing to protection in nineteenth-century Japan David L. Howell; Part
IV. Protection and Colonial Governance: 8. Protection claims: the British,
Maori and the islands of New Zealand, 1800-40 Bain Attwood; 9. Protecting
the peace on the edges of empire: commissioners of crown lands in New South
Wales Lisa Ford; 10. British protection, extraterritoriality and
protectorates in West Africa, 1807-80 Inge Van Hulle; Part V. Protection in
an Inter-Imperial World: 11. Between imperial subjects and political
partners: Bedouin borders and protection in Ottoman Palestine, 1900-17
Ahmad Amara; 12. Protection by proxy: the Hausa-Fulani as agents of British
Colonial rule in Northern Nigeria Moses E. Ochono; 13. The problem of
protectorates in an age of decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 1955-60
Barnaby Crowcroft.