Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters

by Barth, Volker; Cvetkovski, Roland

• ISBN13: 9781472592132
• ISBN10: 1472592131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Volker Barth is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Roland Cvetkovski is Assistant Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Volker Barth and Roland Cvetkovski, University of Cologne, Germany)
Part I: Conceptual Horizons
2. Encounters of Empire: Methodological Approaches (Volker Barth and Roland Cvetkovski, University of Cologne, Germany)
3. Inter-imperial Co-operation: Intellectual Foundations, Missionary Activity and the Indigenous Response (John M. MacKenzie, University of Lancaster, UK)
Part II: Connecting Colonialisms
4. European Colonial Experts, New Forms of Knowledge: Exchange and the Development of Institutions at the End of the 19th Century (Ulrike Lindner, University of Cologne, Germany)
5. Private Colonialism and International Co-operation in Europe, 1870-1914 (Florian Wagner, European University Institute Florence, Italy)
Part III: Law Transfers
6. The British Empire and Inter-imperial Transfers of Water Law, 1870-1950 (David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
7. Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan: Count Pahlen, the Hidaya and Anglo-Muhammadan Law (Alexander Morrison, University of Liverpool, UK)
Part IV: Adaptation and Counterbalance
8. Same Culture, Same Race? The Search for Asian Commonality and the Shift of Regional Hegemony in East Asia after the First Sino-Japanese War, 1894/5 (Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan)
9. The Surveillance of Anti-Colonialists in Western Europe (Daniel Brueckenhaus, Beloit College, USA)
Part V: Military and Violence
10. Franco-German Military Co-operation in the Boxer War, 1900/1 (Susanne Kuß, University of Freiburg, Germany)
11. Deadly Learning? Concentration Camps and Zones in Colonial Wars around 1900 (Jonas Kreienbaum, University of Rostock, Germany)
Bibliography
Index