Book ID: CBB001421381

Arming the Periphery: The Arms Trade in the Indian Ocean during the Age of Global Empire (2012)

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Chew, Emrys (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xii + 309 pp.; index; bibl.
Language: English

Arming the Periphery is 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 across the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914). While industrialization modernized arms production, imperialism globalized arms procurement and proliferation. The new weaponry enabled both the expansion and limitation of European colonial authority, against the changing temper of indigenous state formation and warfare. This new study utilizes core-periphery and cross-cultural approaches in order to draw on sources relating to economic and imperial history; historical and contemporary surveys of weapons technologies and production; and works on the military and cultural usage of firearms, colonial warfare, and the arms transfer system.

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Authors & Contributors
Banerjee, Sukanya
Macola, Giacomo
Lester, Alan
Czennia, Bärbel
Miguel Suárez Bosa
Clingham, Greg
Concepts
Trade
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Imperialism
Globalization; internationalization
Economics
Sea travel
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
Indian Ocean
China
Europe
United States
India
Great Britain
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