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Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 (Hardcover)
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Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 (Hardcover)
Series: Empires in Perspective
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In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port
Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port
Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East
Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the
time Britain and Russia seemed close to war over Afghanistan, and
taking the islands, with their sheltered anchorage, would deny them
to Russia while they might be useful in any blockade of the Russian
fleet in Vladivostok. However, even in this imperial era, there
were qualms about seizing inhabited territory belonging to a
friendly nation, if only through the precedent it may set for
others - particularly Russia - to do the same. Thus, Britain
stressed that occupation was temporary and attempted to gain
legitimate control anyway, through issuing leases. In the event,
after much political posturing from East Asian nations, given that
the geopolitical situation improved and there was no war with
Russia, the British, after assurances that Russia would not take
Port Hamilton, slipped away in February 1887. Geomundo returned to
obscurity. This book, the first full-length study of the Port
Hamilton Affair, is based around contemporary material varying from
printed dispatches and government reports to original archival
manuscripts. This enables the book's scope to range from setting
the Port Hamilton Affair into its context within the high
geopolitics of East Asia through study of the life of the garrison
stationed on the islands to relations between the powerless
indigenous islanders and their British occupiers.
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