| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on empire
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Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-293) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; The Imperial Security State; Series Editors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; From Great Games to imperial security; 2: The military revolution of the nineteenth century; Reordering of the military-diplomatic apparatus; The Prussian war machine; Reform in the Russian Army; Reform and reorganization in France; 3: Imperial state formation, the professionalization of the army and the making of experts; Public administration and civil service reform; The British Army and the Cardwell reforms. |
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The Commission on the Training of Officers for the Scientific CorpsThe emergence of a military techno-elite; The United Services Institute and professionalization; Refashioning imperial masculinity; 4: Forming intelligence, making an archive; From topography to intelligence; The Intelligence Branch at Simla; 5: Disciplining the space of Asia: triangulation and route books; Route books, reconnaissance and survey mapping; Route Books and Reconnaissance; Mapping; Making an archive of space; The Afghan Boundary Commission: demarcating space; Pacing the void. |
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6: Regulating the facts of Asia: military reports and handbooksAfghanistan and the Northwest Frontier of India; Military intelligence operations, North China c. 1884-1910; Pre-Boxer Uprising intelligence operations; Preparation for the China incursion; Deployment and occupation, c. 1900-1903; Intelligence products c. 1901-1903; North China Command and intelligence operations, 1903-1910; Evaluation of Chinese military capacities; 7: The uses of intelligence; Intelligence and the defense of India; War games and staff rides; Intelligence genres and institutional memory. |
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Planning and training regime8: The effects of the imperial security regime in Asia and Great Britain; Japan, China and new armies; Japan and the construction of a military apparatus; China and military westernization; Accommodation and resistance to British imperialism in India; The martial races and the new Indian Army; Frontier warfare and Pathan resistance; Colonial conflicts as small wars; The impact of the security regime in Great Britain; Empire and British popular culture; 9: Imperial security and the transformation of Asia; From empire to hegemony; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army -- History -- Sources.
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Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army. |
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History. |
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Sources.
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Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- History.
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Military intelligence. |
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Great Britain. |
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Military intelligence -- Asia -- History.
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Asia. |
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National security -- Great Britain -- History.
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National security. |
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Internal security -- Asia -- History.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia.
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Internal security. |
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Asia -- Colonial influence.
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Colonies. |
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Imperialism -- History.
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Imperialism. |
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Great Britain -- Military policy.
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Colonial influence. |
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Military policy. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- Biological & Chemical Warfare. |
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British colonies. |
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Geheimdienst. |
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Imperialismus. |
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Imperialismus. |
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Aufklärung. |
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Innere Sicherheit. |
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Geheimdienst. |
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Großbritannien. |
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Britisch-Indien. |
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Grossbritannien. |
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Asien. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hevia, James Louis, 1947- Imperial security state. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521896085 (DLC) 2012013668 (OCoLC)779244511 |
| ISBN |
9781139516587 (electronic book) |
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1139516582 (electronic book) |
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9781139518444 (electronic book) |
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1139518445 (electronic book) |
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9781139047296 (electronic book) |
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1139047299 (electronic book) |
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1139514938 (electronic book) |
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9781139514934 (electronic book) |
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9780521896085 |
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0521896088 |
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9781139516587 |
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1139516582 |
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9781107519572 (paperback) |
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1107519578 |
