Networks of Domination
The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 July 2014
- ISBN 9780199362165
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 155x236x27 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How were European states able to conquer vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system? This book challenges the traditional emphasis on European military dominance and technological superiority. It argues that social conditions, including the ability to recruit local collaborators, often proved decisive.
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In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority. In contrast, it claims that favorable social conditions helped fuel peripheral conquest. European states enjoyed greatest success when they were able to recruit local collaborators and exploit divisions among elites in targeted societies. Different configurations of social ties connecting potential conquerors with elites in the periphery played a critical role in shaping patterns of peripheral conquest as well as the strategies conquerors employed. To demonstrate this argument, the book compares episodes of British colonial expansion in India, South Africa, and Nigeria during the nineteenth century. It also examines the contemporary applicability of the theory through an examination of the United States occupation of Iraq.
Is God always on the side of the big battalions? Macdonald (Wellesley College) argues no. His book analyzes conquest and resistance in late-19th- and early-20th-century Britishdominated regions in India and southern Africa and applies the results of his analysis to the US experience in Iraq ... worthy of a wide readership.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
'Streams of Blood Turned Into Rivers':
The Puzzle of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics
Chapter 1
'We Have Got the Maxim Gun':
Military Superiority and Peripheral Conquest
Chapter 2
Networks of Domination:
The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest
Chapter 3
'The Pressure of Insupportable Evils':
Social Ties and the Conquest of India
Chapter 4
'All Most Cheerfully Touched the Symbol of Peace':
Turbulent Frontiers and Conquest in southern Africa
Chapter 5
'Drawing Lines Upon Maps':
Commerce and Conquest in the Niger Delta
Chapter 6
'Put an Iraqi Face On It':
Social Ties and the Occupation of Iraq
Conclusion
'Vanquished By Its Own Victory':
The Future of Peripheral Conquest
Notes
Index
