For five centuries protection has provided a basic currency for organising relations between polities. Protection underpinned sprawling tributary systems, permeated networks of long-distance trade, reinforced claims of royal authority in distant colonies and structured treaties. Empires made routine use of protection as they extended their influence, projecting authority over old and new subjects, forcing weaker parties to pay them for safe conduct and, sometimes, paying for it themselves. The result was a fluid politics that absorbed both the powerful and the weak while giving rise to institutions and jurisdictional arrangements with broad geographic scope and influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to trace the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Employing a global lens, it offers an innovative way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncovers new dimensions of the relation of empires to regional and global order.
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This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.
Introduction; Part I. Protecting Subjects, Projecting Power:
1.
Protection and the chanelling of movement on the margins of the Holy Roman
Empire Luca Scholz;
2. Containing law within the walls: the protection of
customary law in Santiago Del Cercado, Peru Karen B. Graubart; Part II.
Conquest Reconsidered: 3 Webs of protection and interpolity zones in the
Early Modern World Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow;
4. Plunder and profit in
the name of protection: royal Iberian armadas in the early Atlantic Gabriel
De Avilez Rocha; Part III. Protection and Languages of Political Authority:
5. Protection as a political concept in English political thought, 160351
Annabel Brett;
6. Limited liabilities: the corporation and the political
economy of protection in the British Empire Philip J. Stern;
7. From
nurturing to protection in nineteenth-century Japan David L. Howell; Part IV.
Protection and Colonial Governance:
8. Protection claims: the British, Maori
and the islands of New Zealand, 180040 Bain Attwood;
9. Protecting the peace
on the edges of empire: commissioners of crown lands in New South Wales Lisa
Ford;
10. British protection, extraterritoriality and protectorates in West
Africa, 180780 Inge Van Hulle; Part V. Protection in an Inter-Imperial
World:
11. Between imperial subjects and political partners: Bedouin borders
and protection in Ottoman Palestine, 190017 Ahmad Amara;
12. Protection by
proxy: the Hausa-Fulani as agents of British Colonial rule in Northern
Nigeria Moses E. Ochono;
13. The problem of protectorates in an age of
decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 195560 Barnaby Crowcroft.
Lauren Benton is Nelson Tyrone Jr Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She is a comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history. Adam Clulow is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria. He is a global historian whose work focuses especially on European interaction with Tokugawa Japan and the maritime history of early modern Asia. Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University, Victoria. He has published extensively on the history of settler colonialism.
