Unconquered States

Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av H. E. Chehabi, David Motadel, Boston University) Chehabi, H. E. (Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus, Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)) Motadel, David (Associate Professor of International History, Associate Professor of International History, H E Chehabi

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In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It examines the ways in which countries such as China, Ethiopia, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Siam managed to keep European imperialism at bay, whereas others, such as Hawai'i, Korea, Madagascar, Morocco, and Tonga, long struggled, but ultimately failed, to maintain their sovereignty. The chapters in this book address four major aspects of the relations these countries had with the Western imperial powers: armed conflict and military reform, unequal treaties and capitulations, diplomatic encounters, and royal diplomacy. Bringing together scholars from five continents, this book provides the first comprehensive global history of the engagement of the independent non-European states with the European empires, reshaping our understanding of sovereignty, territoriality, and hierarchy in the modern world order.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-30
Mått160 x 240 x 40 mm
Vikt1 161 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor608
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198863298

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H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus, Boston University, and Honorary Professor, School of History, University of St. Andrews. He studied geography and history at the University of Caen and international relations at Science Po before going to Yale University, where he received his PhD in political science. He has taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and Boston University. He has held a Humboldt Fellowship as well as fellowships at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.David Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). A graduate of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of a book on the history of Muslims under German rule in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2014), which was awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, and the editor of a volume on Islam and the European Empires (Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2018, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.

AcknowledgementsNote on the LanguageList of ContributorsH. E. Chehabi and David Motadel: Struggles for Sovereignty in the Age of EmpirePart I. Military Reform1: Erik Jan Zürcher: Army Reform in the Ottoman Empire2: Michael W. Charney: Military Reform in Siam3: Fantahun Ayele: Ethiopia's Military Conflicts and Reforms4: Chika Tonooka: Meiji Military Reforms5: Ali M. Ansari: Military Reform in Imperial IranPart II. Capitulations and Unequal Treaties6: Ronald C. Po: China in the Age of Unequal Treaties7: H. E. Chehabi and Ali Gheissari: Extraterritoriality and Capitulations in Qajar Iran8: Hailegabriel G. Feyissa: Extraterritoriality in Imperial EthiopiaPart III. Diplomatic Encounters9: Wensheng Wang: Diplomatic Encounters between Qing China and the West10: Andrew Cobbing: Meiji Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Sovereignty11: H. E. Chehabi: Qajar Iran's Global Diplomacy12: Cemil Aydin: Caliphate Diplomacy and Late Ottoman Inclusion into the Imperial World Order13: Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner: Global Diplomacy and Ethiopia's Struggle for Sovereignty14: Sven Trakulhun: Siam's Diplomacy and Imperial EuropePart IV. Royalty and Courts15: Edhem Eldem: Ottoman Royal Uses of Western Symbolism and Pageantry in the Imperial Age16: Takashi Fujitani: Imperialism and Japan's Monarchy17: Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar: European Imperialism and the Qajar Court18: Izabela Orlowska: Abyssinia's Monarchy and European Imperial Domination19: Patrick Jory: Siam's Monarchy and European ImperialismPart V. Defeats20: James Roslington: Closing the Moroccan Question21: David Keanu Sai: Hawai'i's Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire22: Kirk W. Larsen: Korea's Fall23: Gwyn Campbell: Primary and Secondary Imperialisms in Madagascar24: Lorenz Gonschor: Survival and State Building in the Kingdom of TongaGlenda Sluga: AfterwordIndex

This is an ingenious collection, a book on international history in the 19th and 20th centuries that really does, for once, "fill a gap". By countering our simple assumption that the West's imperial and colonial drives swallowed up all of Africa and Asia in the post-1850 period, Chehabi and Motadel's fine collection of case-studies of nations that managed to stay free—from Abyssinia to Siam, Japan to Persia—gives us a more rounded and complex view of the international Great-Power scene in those decades. This is really fine revisionist history.