TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton,Lauren A.
AU  - Clulow,Adam
AU  - Attwood,Bain
TI  - Protection and empire: a global history 
SN  - 9781108283595 (ebook)
AV  - JZ6369 .P74 2018
U1  - 355/.033 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Responsibility to protect (International law)
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Human security
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017)
N2  - 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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