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Protection and Empire - A Global History (Hardcover)
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Protection and Empire - A Global History (Hardcover)
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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.
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