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.
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