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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Language
List of Contributors
H. E. Chehabi and David Motadel: 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
Glenda Sluga: Afterword
Index
