Présentation de l’éditeur

In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It examines the ways in which countries such as China, Ethiopia, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Siam managed to keep European imperialism at bay, whereas others, such as Hawai'i, Korea, Madagascar, Morocco, and Tonga, long struggled, but ultimately failed, to maintain their sovereignty.

The chapters in this book address four major aspects of the relations these countries had with the Western imperial powers: armed conflict and military reform, unequal treaties and capitulations, diplomatic encounters, and royal diplomacy. Bringing together scholars from five continents, this book provides the first comprehensive global history of the engagement of the independent non-European states with the European empires, reshaping our understanding of sovereignty, territoriality, and hierarchy in the modern world order.

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Part I. Military Reform

1:Army Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Erik Jan Zürcher
2:Military Reform in Siam, Michael W. Charney
3:Ethiopia's Military Conflicts and Reforms, Fantahun Ayele
4:Meiji Military Reforms, Chika Tonooka
5:Military Reform in Imperial Iran, Ali M. Ansari

Part II. Capitulations and Unequal Treaties

6:China in the Age of Unequal Treaties, Ronald C. Po
7:Extraterritoriality and Capitulations in Qajar Iran, H. E. Chehabi and Ali Gheissari
8:Extraterritoriality in Imperial Ethiopia, Hailegabriel G. Feyissa

Part III. Diplomatic Encounters

9:Diplomatic Encounters between Qing China and the West, Wensheng Wang
10:Meiji Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Sovereignty, Andrew Cobbing
11:Qajar Iran's Global Diplomacy, H. E. Chehabi
12:Caliphate Diplomacy and Late Ottoman Inclusion into the Imperial World Order, Cemil Aydin
13:Global Diplomacy and Ethiopia's Struggle for Sovereignty, Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner
14:Siam's Diplomacy and Imperial Europe, Sven Trakulhun

Part IV. Royalty and Courts

15:Ottoman Royal Uses of Western Symbolism and Pageantry in the Imperial Age, Edhem Eldem
16:Imperialism and Japan's Monarchy, Takashi Fujitani
17:European Imperialism and the Qajar Court, Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
18:Abyssinia's Monarchy and European Imperial Domination, Izabela Orlowska
19:Siam's Monarchy and European Imperialism, Patrick Jory

Part V. Defeats

20:Closing the Moroccan Question, James Roslington
21:Hawai'i's Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire, David Keanu Sai
22:Korea's Fall, Kirk W. Larsen
23:Primary and Secondary Imperialisms in Madagascar, Gwyn Campbell
24:Survival and State Building in the Kingdom of Tonga, Lorenz Gonschor

Afterword, Glenda Sluga