Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930

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.

• Part I: Conceptual HorizonsIntroduction - Encounters of Empire: Methodological Approaches (Volker Barth and Roland Cvetkovski, University of Cologne, Germany)1. European Imperialism: A Zone of Co-operation rather than Competition? (John M. MacKenzie, University of Lancaster, UK)Part II: Connecting Colonialisms2. New Forms of Knowledge Exchange between Imperial Powers: The Development of the Institut Colonial International (ICI) since the End of the Nineteenth Century (Ulrike Lindner, University of Cologne, Germany)3. Private Colonialism and International Co-operation in Europe, 1870-1914 (Florian Wagner, European University Institute Florence, Italy) Part III: Law Transfers4. Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-imperial Legal Influences (David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Israel) 5. 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 Counterbalance6. Same Race, Same Fate? Theories of Asian Commonality and the Shift of Regional Hegemony in East Asia after the First Sino-Japanese War, 1894/95 (Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan)7. The Origins of Trans-Imperial Policing: British-French Government Cooperation in the Surveillance of Anti-Colonialists in Europe, 1905-1925 (Daniel Brueckenhaus, Beloit College, USA)Part V: Military and Violence8. Co-operation Between German and French Troops During the Boxer War in China, 1900/1901: The Punitive Expedition to Baoding (Susanne Kuß, University of Bern, Switzerland)9. Deadly Learning? Concentration Camps in Colonial Wars Around 1900 (Jonas Kreienbaum, University of Rostock, Germany)BibliographyIndex

This fascinating volume is focused on largely neglected aspect of inter-imperial history. Instead of looking at inter-imperial rivalry and conflicts, it analyzes various forms of cooperation between the empires in their colonial endeavors. Masterfully written and carefully edited, this book constitutes an important contribution to new history of empires.