Securing Empire

Beatrice de Graaf is Professor of History at University of Utrecht, Netherlands. A historian in the field of security and terrorism, her research focuses on security-related themes in the 19th century and on modern and contemporary cases of conflict and terrorism. She was awarded with the Stevin Prize in 2018 for her work. Ozan Ozavi is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project and the Security History Network. His current research looks at military presence and imperial cooperation in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean. Erik de Lange is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project and the Security History Network. His publications include Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (2021), and Intellectual Origins of the Republic: Ahmet Agaoglu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey (2015).

Introduction: Historicizing Security in an Age of Empires, Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci & Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Part I - Actors, Allies and Adversaries

1. Dynamics and Limits of the Anglo-French Global Condominium, 1820-1880, David Todd (Sciences Po Paris, France)
2. The Egyptian Mixed Courts: Negotiating a Nexus Between Property, Progress, Justice and Security in a Situation of Imperial Entanglement, 1867-1875, Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
3. State Rebuilding and the Modernization of Police Organizations in Korea and Japan, Seo-Hyun Park (Lafayette College, USA)

Part II - Threats and Interests: Imperial Anxieties

4. ‘Let Them Have What Name They Will’: Piracy and Imperial Encroachment from North Africa to the Americas, Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
5. Protecting the Health of the American Empire in the “Orient”: U.S. Sanitary Measures in and Beyond its Pacific Colonies (c. 1898-1910), Andrea Wiegeshoff (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
6. Securitising ‘Civilised’ Identity in Asia: The Case of Japanese Imperialism, Shogo Suzuki (University of Manchester, UK)

Part III - Practices: Enacting and Contesting Security

7. Imperial Cooperation at the Rhine and Lower Danube: European Riverine Commissions and the Financial Dimension of Security, Constantin Ardeleanu & Joep Schenk (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
8. Returning the Sense of Security: The 1860 Civil War in Ottoman Syria and the European Commission, Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
9. Creating Empire, Resisting Empire: Visions of Security in the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1902, David Silbey (Cornell University, USA)
10. Forgetting Two Histories: European Institutional Models, Empty Spaces, and the Failure of the 1885 Congo River Commission, Joanne Yo (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Conclusion: Junction 1815, An Epilogue: Globalising the History of European Peace and Security After the Congress of Vienna, Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand)