Arming the Periphery

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The Arms Trade in the Indian Ocean during the Age of Global Empire

ISBN: 0230354858
ISBN 13: 9780230354852
Autor: Chew, E
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 309 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.06.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

A new study presenting wide-ranging historical research and analysisUtilizes core-periphery and cross-cultural approaches Draws on sources relating to economic, industrial, and business histories, comparative studies in imperial and international history, historical and contemporary surveys of weapons technologies and production, works on the military and cultural usage of firearms, colonial warfare, and the arms transfer systemWill be read by scholars and policy-makers interested in the early history of globalization, the long-term evolution of security issues, and weapons transfers and technologies that shaped the rise and fall of global empire

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Beschreibung

A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).

Autorenporträt

EMRYS CHEW Assistant Professor of History at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on the interconnections between Asian and global history, with particular emphasis on the cross-cultural networks and exchanges that transformed warfare and strategy.

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