Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930

Volker Barth is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cologne, Germany. Roland Cvetkovski is Assistant Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Part I: Conceptual Horizons
Introduction - Encounters of Empire: Methodological Approaches (Volker Barth and Roland Cvetkovski, University of Cologne, Germany)
1. European Imperialism: A Zone of Co-operation rather than Competition? (John M. MacKenzie, University of Lancaster, UK)
Part II: Connecting Colonialisms
2. New Forms of Knowledge Exchange between Imperial Powers: The Development of the Institut Colonial International (ICI) since the End of the Nineteenth Century (Ulrike Lindner, University of Cologne, Germany)
3. Private Colonialism and International Co-operation in Europe, 1870-1914 (Florian Wagner, European University Institute Florence, Italy)
Part III: Law Transfers
4. Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-imperial Legal Influences (David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
5. Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan: Count Pahlen, the Hidaya and Anglo-Muhammadan Law (Alexander Morrison, University of Liverpool, UK)
Part IV: Adaptation and Counterbalance
6. Same Race, Same Fate? Theories of Asian Commonality and the Shift of Regional Hegemony in East Asia after the First Sino-Japanese War, 1894/95 (Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan)
7. The Origins of Trans-Imperial Policing: British-French Government Cooperation in the Surveillance of Anti-Colonialists in Europe, 1905-1925 (Daniel Brueckenhaus, Beloit College, USA)
Part V: Military and Violence
8. Co-operation Between German and French Troops During the Boxer War in China, 1900/1901: The Punitive Expedition to Baoding (Susanne Kuß, University of Bern, Switzerland)
9. Deadly Learning? Concentration Camps in Colonial Wars Around 1900 (Jonas Kreienbaum, University of Rostock, Germany)
Bibliography
Index