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How the East Was Won - Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia (Hardcover)
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How the East Was Won - Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia (Hardcover)
Series: LSE International Studies
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How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern
Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of
India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals
the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty
and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as
parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of
cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions
necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous
collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The
English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and
conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's
biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the
'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative
rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance
a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.
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