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How the East Was Won

How the East Was Won

Phillips, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: LSE International Studies

General Asian HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1107120977
ISBN13: 9781107120976
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 14 2021
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips answers reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

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