Securing Empire

Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century

Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci, Erik de Lange

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781350378537
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history. Taking a unique approach to imperial and international history, the essays in this volume show how security propelled imperial expansion, supported institutions of cooperation, maintained networks of imperial actors and shaped experiences of imperial rule. Contending that security should be studied as a force in its own right, one that drove processes of colonization, civilization and commerce, Securing Empire shows how cooperation between and across empires hinged on shared notions of threats and common ways of countering them. In showing that security did not solely inform, support and complicate unilateral imperial endeavours, but also brought different imperial entities together and forged global modes of government, this book shows how integral security was to the 'global transformation' of the 19th century and the new world order that emerged.

Table of contents

• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: ‘To give to the indigenous population the same security as to the Europeans’: The Mixed Courts of Egypt and the financial-legal turn of the Eastern Question
• Chapter 2: State rebuilding and the modernization of police organizations in Japan and Korea in the late nineteenth century
• Chapter 3: ‘Let them have what name they will’: Piracy and transimperial cooperation from Barbary to the Americas
• Chapter 4: Protecting the sanitary security of the American Empire in the ‘Orient’: US health measures in and beyond its Pacific colonies around 1900
• Chapter 5: Securing Japan’s civilized position in the world: Identity security and Japanese imperialism in the late nineteenth century
• Chapter 6: From the Rhine to the Congo, via the Danube: Transimperial implantations of a European river regime, 1815–85
• Chapter 7: Civil war and diplomacy: The 1860 intervention of the Great Powers in Ottoman Syria
• Chapter 8: Creating empire, resisting empire: The Boxer Rebellion in China, 1899–1901
• Chapter 9: Securing European civilization at the 1885 Berlin Conference and along the West African coast
• Conclusion: Transimperial security practices, nineteenth-century style
• Bibliography
• Index