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Author |
: Lauren Benton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108417860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108417868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Protection and Empire by : Lauren Benton
This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.
Author |
: Zoë Laidlaw |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2021-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108169257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108169252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Protecting the Empire's Humanity by : Zoë Laidlaw
Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in 'protecting' and 'civilizing' indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines' Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial 'humanitarianism'.
Author |
: Lauren Benton |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2016-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674972803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674972805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rage for Order by : Lauren Benton
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires—especially in the British Empire’s sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that century. “Rage for Order is a book of exceptional range and insight. Its successes are numerous. At a time when questions of law and legalism are attracting more and more attention from historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire, but still tend to be considered within very specific contexts, its sweep and ambition are particularly welcome...Rage for Order is a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history, and for the history of modern imperialism.” —Alex Middleton, Reviews in History “Rage for Order offers a fresh account of nineteenth-century global order that takes us beyond worn liberal and post-colonial narratives into a new and more adventurous terrain.” —Jens Bartelson, Australian Historical Studies
Author |
: Jack Snyder |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2013-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801468599 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801468590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Myths of Empire by : Jack Snyder
Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.He tests three competing theories—realism, misperception, and domestic coalition politics—against five detailed case studies: early twentieth-century Germany, Japan in the interwar period, Great Britain in the Victorian era, the Soviet Union after World War II, and the United States during the Cold War. The resulting insights run counter to much that has been written about these apparently familiar instances of empire building.
Author |
: Noel Maurer |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 571 |
Release |
: 2013-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400846603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400846609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Empire Trap by : Noel Maurer
How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investments Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government to intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small—at least at the outset—but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they were backing, making disengagement more difficult. Maurer discusses how, all the way through the 1970s, the United States not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in the absence of active American involvement. Foreign nations expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation—despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of institutions focusing on international arbitration finally gave the executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of foreign intervention and the nation's changing role as an imperial power.
Author |
: Alfred William Brian Simpson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 1188 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199267898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199267897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Rights and the End of Empire by : Alfred William Brian Simpson
The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.
Author |
: Peter A. Shulman |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421417073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421417073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coal and Empire by : Peter A. Shulman
The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the nineteenth century: the age of coal. Coal and Empire insightfully weaves together pivotal moments in the history of science and technology by linking coal and steam to the realms of foreign relations, navy logistics, and American politics. Long before oil, coal allowed Americans to rethink the place of the United States in the world. Shulman explores how the development of coal-fired oceangoing steam power in the 1840s created new questions, opportunities, and problems for U.S. foreign relations and naval strategy. The search for coal, for example, helped take Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in the 1850s. It facilitated Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of black colonization in 1860s Panama. After the Civil War, it led Americans to debate whether a need for coaling stations required the construction of a global empire. Until 1898, however, Americans preferred to answer the questions posed by coal with new technologies rather than new territories. Afterward, the establishment of America's string of island outposts created an entirely different demand for coal to secure the country's new colonial borders, a process that paved the way for how Americans incorporated oil into their strategic thought. By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power.
Author |
: Amanda Nettelbeck |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1108458386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108458382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood by : Amanda Nettelbeck
Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection policies drew colonised peoples within the embrace of the law, managed colonial labour needs, and set conditions on mobility. Within this comparative frame, Nettelbeck traces how the imperative to protect indigenous rights represented more than an obligation to mitigate the impacts of colonialism and dispossession. It carried a far-reaching agenda of legal reform that arose from the need to manage colonised peoples in an Empire where the demands of humane governance jostled with colonial growth.
Author |
: Molly Pucci |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2020-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300242577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300242573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Security Empire by : Molly Pucci
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Author |
: Todd Miller |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784785147 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784785148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire of Borders by : Todd Miller
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North. The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world. Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations. In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.