Empire in Asia: A New Global History

by Brian P. Farrell (Editor)

Overview

Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia is the first thorough survey of the topic

Volume I traces the evolution of a constellation of competing empires in Asia from the 13th through to the 18th centuries. It describes the history and characteristic features of imperial regimes in each major sub-region of Asia, from the Ottomans and Safavids in the West, Romanovs in the North, Mughals in the South, the Mongols & their successors in Inner Asia, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the East. Volume II covers the long 19th century, commonly seen in terms of ‘high imperialism’ and the global projection of Western power. It explores the dynamic, volatile and contested processes which caused, by the early years of the 20th century, the integration of Asian states, spaces and peoples into the wider dynamics of global reordering.

The 2 volumes of Empire in Asia offer a significant contribution to the theory and practice of empire when considered globally and comparatively, and are essential reading for all students and scholars of global, imperial and Asian history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350182141
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/25/2021
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 (2005) and The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943 (1998). He has also co-authored, edited and co-edited several other books.

Table of Contents

Volume I:
Introduction: Ordering the World: Horizons and Empires, from Chinggisid to Qing (Brian P. Farrell, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
1. Reordering the World? Empire in Asia and the Early Modern World (Thomas DuBois, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australia)
Part I: Empires of Central Eurasia
2. Mongol Eurasia (Florence Hodous, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
3. The Great Ming and East Asia: The World Order of a Han-Centric Empire (Jinping Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
4. The Turco-Persianate Empires of Western Asia (Jack Fairey, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
5. Understanding the Mughal Empire: Politics, Institutions, Practices, and Legitimacy (Murari Jha, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
6. In Search of Empire: Muscovy, Russian and Imperial Practice in (Eur)asian Space (Paul Werth, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA)
7.Expanding Asian Empire: the Qing (Frederik Vermote, California State University, Fresno, USA)
Part II: Empires of the Maritime Periphery
8. Iberian Empires and the Making of Early Modern Asia (Anthony Disney, LaTrobe University, Australia)
9. Contracting Empire? Chartered Companies and Maritime Empire in Asia (Peter Borschberg, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
10. In Search of Empire in Island Southeast Asia (Sher Banu Khan, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
11. In Search of Empire in Mainland Southeast Asia (Bruce Lockhart, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Bibliography
Index

Volume II:

Introduction: Asia, Empire and the dawn of the 19th Century (Brian P. Farrell and Donna Brunero, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
1. Legal Fiction: Extraterritoriality and Legal Regimes in China (Robert Bickers, Bristol University, UK)
2. Colonizing Mainland Southeast Asia: Sovereignty and Suzerainty (Bruce Lockhart, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)
3. Religion and Empire in the Long 19th Century (Jack Fairey, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
4. Imperial Flows: Empire and the Making of Modern Maritime Asia (Donna Brunero, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
5. Infrastructure and Empire: Japan and Remaking East Asia (John DiMoia, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
6. Moving Peoples: Russia and Empire in Modern Asia (Paul Werth, University of Nevada, Los Angeles, USA)
7. Defining Space: Imperial Frontiers and the Making of Modern Asia (Brian P. Farrell, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
8. An Empire Like the Others: Japan in East Asia (Ishizu Tomoyuki, National Institue of Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan)
9. A Long Nineteenth Century? Empire and the Making of Global Asia (Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics, UK)
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"[A] useful survey of an enormously complex subject. It seems to this reviewer that the ideal audience for this text would be advanced undergraduates and early graduate students." -Pacific Historical Review

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