Unconquered States

Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-886329-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It examines the ways in which countries such as China, Ethiopia, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Siam managed to keep European imperialism at bay, whereas others, such as Hawai'i, Korea, Madagascar, Morocco, and Tonga, long struggled, but ultimately failed, to maintain their sovereignty.

The chapters in this book address four major aspects of the relations these countries had with the Western imperial powers: armed conflict and military reform, unequal treaties and capitulations, diplomatic encounters, and royal diplomacy. Bringing together scholars from five continents, this book provides the first comprehensive global history of the engagement of the independent non-European states with the European empires, reshaping our understanding of sovereignty, territoriality, and hierarchy in the modern world order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chehabi, H E

Motadel, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Note on the Language

- List of Contributors

- Struggles for Sovereignty in the Age of Empire

- Part I. Military Reform

- 1: Erik Jan Zürcher: Army Reform in the Ottoman Empire

- 2: Michael W. Charney: Military Reform in Siam

- 3: Fantahun Ayele: Ethiopia's Military Conflicts and Reforms

- 4: Chika Tonooka: Meiji Military Reforms

- 5: Ali M. Ansari: Military Reform in Imperial Iran

- Part II. Capitulations and Unequal Treaties

- 6: Ronald C. Po: China in the Age of Unequal Treaties

- 7: H. E. Chehabi and Ali Gheissari: Extraterritoriality and Capitulations in Qajar Iran

- 8: Hailegabriel G. Feyissa: Extraterritoriality in Imperial Ethiopia

- Part III. Diplomatic Encounters

- 9: Wensheng Wang: Diplomatic Encounters between Qing China and the West

- 10: Andrew Cobbing: Meiji Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Sovereignty

- 11: H. E. Chehabi: Qajar Iran's Global Diplomacy

- 12: Cemil Aydin: Caliphate Diplomacy and Late Ottoman Inclusion into the Imperial World Order

- 13: Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner: Global Diplomacy and Ethiopia's Struggle for Sovereignty

- 14: Sven Trakulhun: Siam's Diplomacy and Imperial Europe

- Part IV. Royalty and Courts

- 15: Edhem Eldem: Ottoman Royal Uses of Western Symbolism and Pageantry in the Imperial Age

- 16: Takashi Fujitani: Imperialism and Japan's Monarchy

- 17: Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar: European Imperialism and the Qajar Court

- 18: Izabela Orlowska: Abyssinia's Monarchy and European Imperial Domination

- 19: Patrick Jory: Siam's Monarchy and European Imperialism

- Part V. Defeats

- 20: James Roslington: Closing the Moroccan Question

- 21: David Keanu Sai: Hawai'i's Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire

- 22: Kirk W. Larsen: Korea's Fall

- 23: Gwyn Campbell: Primary and Secondary Imperialisms in Madagascar

- 24: Lorenz Gonschor: Survival and State Building in the Kingdom of Tonga

- Afterword

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus, Boston University, and Honorary Professor, School of History, University of St. Andrews. He studied geography and history at the University of Caen and international relations at Science Po before going to Yale University, where he received his PhD in political science. He has taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and Boston University. He has held a Humboldt Fellowship as well as fellowships at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

David Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). A graduate of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of a book on the history of Muslims under German rule in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2014), which was awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, and the editor of a volume on Islam and the European Empires (Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2018, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.