ISBN: 9781108417860 - protection and empire: a global history (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Firm, square and tight with sturdy hinges, just showing a few minor bumps and some mild cosmetic wear. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is in very good condition. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and clean. Offered for sale at a very sensible price.…

Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xiii, 274. Original publisher's illustrated boards with detail from untitled water colour, 1772 by Carel Frederik Reimer. ISBN: 9781108417860 Fine.

Zustand: New. 2017. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 274 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. An innovative volume tracing the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. A group of leading scholars offer a new way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncover new dimensions of .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 274 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.