Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics

337 Pages·2014·2.799 MB·English

by  Paul MacDonald

Networks of Domination

Networks of
Domination
The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest
in International Politics
PAUL K. MACDONALD
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Networks of domination : the social foundations of peripheral conquest in international politics / Paul
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
“Streams of Blood Turned into Rivers”: The Puzzle of
INTRODUCTION
Peripheral Conquest in International Politics
1
1. “We Have Got the Maxim Gun”: Military Superiority
CHAPTER
and Peripheral Conquest
17
2. Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of
CHAPTER
Peripheral Conquest
46
3. “The Pressure of Insupportable Evils”: Social Ties and
CHAPTER
the Conquest of India
78
4. “All Most Cheerfully Touched the Symbol of
CHAPTER
Peace”: Turbulent Frontiers and Conquest in Southern Africa
115
5. “Drawing Lines upon Maps”: Commerce and Conquest
CHAPTER
in the Niger Delta
149
6. “Put an Iraqi Face on It”: Social Ties and the
CHAPTER
Occupation of Iraq
182
“Vanquished by Its Own Victory”: The Future of
CONCLUSION
Peripheral Conquest
215
Notes 239
Index 307
vii

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 Peripheral Conquest by Decade 21
1.2 Peripheral Conquest by Region 22
2.1 Social Ties between Conqueror and Local Elites 54
2.2 Social Ties among Local Elites 59
2.3 Configurations of Social Ties and Peripheral Conquest 61
2.4 Historical Cases of Peripheral Conquest 73
3.1 The Rise of British Power in India 83
3.2 Social Ties and Awadh, c. 1797 97
4.1 British Expansion on the Eastern Cape Frontier 120
4.2 Social Ties with Frontier Chiefdoms, c. 1850 143
5.1 The Rise of British Power on the Niger Coast 153
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