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COLONIAL INFLUENCE -- 327.2 --- ASIA -- 327.2 --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Asia --- anno 1800-1899
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The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military intelligence between 1880 and 1940. He shows that together these formed a renewable and authoritative archive that was used to train intelligence officers, to inform civilian policy makers and to provide vital information to commanders as they approached the battlefield. The strategic, geographical, political and ethnographical knowledge that was gathered not only framed imperial strategies towards colonized areas to the east but also produced the very object of intervention: Asia itself. Finally, the book addresses the long-term impact of the security regime, revealing how elements of British colonial knowledge have continued to influence contemporary tactics of counterinsurgency in twenty-first-century Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military intelligence --- National security --- Internal security --- Imperialism --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Military policy --- Information warfare --- Intelligence service --- Deception (Military science) --- History. --- Government policy --- Great Britain. --- British Indian Army --- History --- Great Britain --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colonies --- Colonial influence. --- Military policy. --- Arts and Humanities
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In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans’ point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources—many previously untranslated—for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia’s reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.
Diplomatic etiquette --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations
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A re-evaluation of British Imperialism in nineteenth-century China from the perspective of postcolonial theory.
Imperialism --- History --- China --- Great Britain --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations
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