Imperial Co-Operation and Transfer, 1870-1930: Empires and Encounters

✍ Scribed by Volker Barth; Roland Cvetkovski

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Conflict and competition between imperial powers has long been a feature of global history, but their co-operation has largely been a peripheral concern. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 redresses this imbalance, providing a coherent conceptual framework for the study of inter-imperial collaboration and arguing that it deserves an equally prominent position in the field.

Using a variety of examples from across Asia, Europe and Africa, this book demonstrates the ways in which empires have shared and exchanged their knowledge about imperial governance, including military strategy, religious influence and political surveillance. It asks how, when and where these partnerships took place, and who initiated them.

Not only does this book fill an empirical gap in the study of imperial history, it traces ideas of empire from their conception in imperial contact zones to their implementation in specific contexts. As such, this is an important study for imperial and global historians of all specialisms.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part One: Conceptual Horizons
Introduction: Encounters of Empires: Methodological Approaches
1. European Imperialism: A Zone of Co-operation Rather than Competition?
Part Two: Connecting Colonialisms
2. New Forms of Knowledge Exchange Between Imperial Powers: The Development of the Institut Colonial International (ICI) Since the End of the Nineteenth Century
3. Private Colonialism and International Co-operation in Europe, 1870–1914
Part: Three Law Transfers
4. Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-imperial Legal Influences
5. Creating a Colonial Shari‘a for Russian Turkestan: Count Pahlen, the Hidaya and Anglo-Muhammadan Law
Part Four: Adaptation and Counterbalance
6. Same Race, Same Fate? Theories of Asian Commonality and the Shift of Regional Hegemony in East Asia After the First Sino-Japanese War (1894/5)
7. The Origins of Trans-imperialPolicing: British-French Government Co-operation in the Surveillance of Anti-colonialistsin Europe, 1905–25
Part Five: Military and Violence
8. Co-operation Between German and French Troops During the Boxer War in China, 1900/1: The Punitive Expedition to Baoding
9. Deadly Learning? Concentration Camps in Colonial Wars Around 1900
Index