Research Catalog
Protection and empire a global history
- Title
- Protection and empire [electronic resource] : a global history / edited by Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Adam Clulow, Monash University, Victoria, Bain Attwood, Monash University, Victoria.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : maps.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Protection and empire (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2017024131
- OCLC
- ssj0001870252
- Title
- Protection and empire [electronic resource] : a global history / edited by Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Adam Clulow, Monash University, Victoria, Bain Attwood, Monash University, Victoria.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Benton, Lauren A., 1956-Clulow, Adam.Attwood, Bain.