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In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority. In contrast, it claims that favorable social conditions helped fuel peripheral conquest. European states enjoyed greatest success when they were able to recruit local collaborators and exploit divisions among elites in targeted societies.
In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. Much of Asia and Africa fell to the armies of the European great powers, and by World War I, those armies controlled 40 percent of the world's territory and 30 percent of its population. Conventional wisdom states that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority, but the reality was far more complex. In Networks of Domination, Paul MacDonald argues that an ability to exploit the internal political situation within a
Introduction 'Streams of Blood Turned Into Rivers':The Puzzle of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics / 1. - Chapter 1 'We Have Got the Maxim Gun': Military Superiority and Peripheral Conquest / 17. - Chapter 2 Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest / 46. - Chapter 3 'The Pressure of Insupportable Evils': Social Ties and the Conquest of India / 78. - Chapter 4 'All Most Cheerfully Touched the Symbol of Peace': Turbulent Frontiers and Conquest in Southern Africa / 115. - Chapter 5 'Drawing Lines Upon Maps': Commerce and Conquest in the Niger Delta / 149. - Chapter 6 'Put an Iraqi Face On It': Social Ties and the Occupation of Iraq / 182. - Conclusion 'Vanquished By Its Own Victory': The Future of Peripheral Conques / 215
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