Book contents
- Security in the Gulf
- Security in the Gulf
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Patterns of Protection in the Gulf
- 2 British India and Local Security Arrangements
- 3 Local Militaries and Intensified British Interests
- 4 Intervention or Local Means of Coercion?
- 5 Local Forces and Britain’s Silver Age in the Gulf
- 6 Securing the Gulf after Britain’s Withdrawal
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Introduction
Local Militaries and Imperialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2020
- Security in the Gulf
- Security in the Gulf
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Patterns of Protection in the Gulf
- 2 British India and Local Security Arrangements
- 3 Local Militaries and Intensified British Interests
- 4 Intervention or Local Means of Coercion?
- 5 Local Forces and Britain’s Silver Age in the Gulf
- 6 Securing the Gulf after Britain’s Withdrawal
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
At its root, imperialism, as an idea and a process, denotes a relationship of dominion. This incursion of one power into the sovereignty of another, however, can take many forms.1 In Charles Reynolds’s telling, the interaction between an imperial power and weaker state can be explicit (political sovereignty asserted by force over subject peoples) or implicit (a system of control and restraint exercised over peoples and territories).
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- Security in the GulfLocal Militaries before British Withdrawal, pp. 1 - 5Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020