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ISBN10: 0199257817, ISBN13: 9780199257812, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition From publisherÂ’s library. Dust jacket shows faint shelfwear from storage. Marking on the jacket and on spine. Bookplate on inside cover and library stamp, otherwise book is new. Pages clean and crisp, spine unbroken. 1019A [New Rochelle, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
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ISBN10: 0199257817, ISBN13: 9780199257812, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Patrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers on both sides of the imperial equation. It seeks an answer to the question: how were European officials able to govern so many societies for so long? Rejecting the usual explanations of 'collaboration' and indirect rule', this study looks to pre-imperial structures in theindigenous hierarchies which supplied patrimonial models of chieftaincy for territorial government. For nawabs, chiefs, emirs, sultans, and their officials and followers there were dynastic and economic advantages inaccepting the terms of European over-rule, as well as the threat of deposition. For European officials, few in numbers and with limited military and financial resources, there were ready-made systems of local government that could be co-opted, reformed, or left relatively untouched. Both sides played politics as patrons and clients within a dual system of administration based on a mixture of force and self-interest.Surveying a wide variety of cases and employing apatron-client model, this study embraces pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial politics in new states. It covers the chronology of early European dependency on local rulers; the reasons for reversal ofstatus among chiefs and admi ...
ISBN10: 0199257817, ISBN13: 9780199257812, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Patrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers on both sides of the imperial equation. It seeks an answer to the question: how were European officials able to govern so many societies for so long? Rejecting the usual explanations of 'collaboration' and indirect rule', this study looks to pre-imperial structures in theindigenous hierarchies which supplied patrimonial models of chieftaincy for territorial government. For nawabs, chiefs, emirs, sultans, and their officials and followers there were dynastic and economic advantages inaccepting the terms of European over-rule, as well as the threat of deposition. For European officials, few in numbers and with limited military and financial resources, there were ready-made systems of local government that could be co-opted, reformed, or left relatively untouched. Both sides played politics as patrons and clients within a dual system of administration based on a mixture of force and self-interest.Surveying a wide variety of cases and employing apatron-client model, this study embraces pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial politics in new states. It covers the chronology of early European dependency on local rulers; the reasons for reversal ofstatus among chiefs and admi ...
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