Empire in Asia
A New Global History
Empire in Asia
A New Global History
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[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.
[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.
Empire is a dirty word, more often than not associated with Europe's expansion overseas. But many of the world's most powerful empires were in Asia, and they too battled for more territory. In this engagingly written and carefully crafted volume, some of the best scholars in the field bring much needed clarity to the many ways in which empire became truly global in the nineteenth century, with repercussions that can be felt to his day.
Fairey, Brunero, and Farrell have assembled a remarkably far-reaching book, whose many contributions to the debate on empires in Asian and world history are at once provocative and innovative. Weaving together the histories of Asian empires and European empires in Asia from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, this work poses new questions and challenges established concepts, chronologies, and narratives of both modernity and empire. The Asian perspective offers another vista to a history of globalization in which empires, both East and West, were prime agents, and in that lies the most valuable contribution of this extensive and stimulating collection of studies.
Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. His publications include The Defence and Fall of Singapore, 1940-1942 (2005), The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-43 (1998) and Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (1999).
[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.
Empire is a dirty word, more often than not associated with Europe's expansion overseas. But many of the world's most powerful empires were in Asia, and they too battled for more territory. In this engagingly written and carefully crafted volume, some of the best scholars in the field bring much needed clarity to the many ways in which empire became truly global in the nineteenth century, with repercussions that can be felt to his day.
Fairey, Brunero, and Farrell have assembled a remarkably far-reaching book, whose many contributions to the debate on empires in Asian and world history are at once provocative and innovative. Weaving together the histories of Asian empires and European empires in Asia from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, this work poses new questions and challenges established concepts, chronologies, and narratives of both modernity and empire. The Asian perspective offers another vista to a history of globalization in which empires, both East and West, were prime agents, and in that lies the most valuable contribution of this extensive and stimulating collection of studies.
Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. His publications include The Defence and Fall of Singapore, 1940-1942 (2005), The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-43 (1998) and Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (1999).