Protection and Empire

Introduction; Part I. Protecting Subjects, Projecting Power: 1. Protection and the Chanelling of Movement on the Margins of the Holy Roman Empire Luca Scholz; 2. Containing Law Within the Walls: The Protection of Customary Law in Santiago Del Cercado, Peru Karen B. Graubart; Part II. Conquest Reconsidered: 3 Webs of Protection and Interpolity Zones in the Early Modern World Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow; 4. Plunder and Profit in the Name of Protection: Royal Iberian Armadas in the Early Atlantic Gabriel De Avilez Rocha; Part III. Protection and Languages of Political Authority: 5. Protection as a Political Concept in English Political Thought, 1603-1651 Annabel Brett; 6. Limited Liabilities: the Corporation and the Political Economy of Protection in the British Empire Philip J. Stern; 7. From Nurturing to Protection in Nineteenth-Century Japan David L. Howell; Part IV. Protection and Colonial Governance: Part V. Protection in an Inter-Imperial World; Part IV. Protection and Colonial Governance: 8. Protection Claims: The British, Maori and the Islands of New Zealand, 1800-1840 Bain Attwood: 9. Protecting the Peace on the Edges of Empire: Commissioners of Crown Lands in New South Wales Lisa Ford; 10. British Protection, Extraterritoriality and Protectorates in West Africa, 1807-1880 Inge Van Hulle; Part V. Protection in an Inter-Imperial World: 11. Between Imperial Subjects and Political Partners: Bedouin Borders and Protection in Ottoman Palestine, 1900-1917 Ahmad Amara; 12. Protection by Proxy: the Hausa-Fulani as Agents of British Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria Moses E. Ochono; 13. The Problem of Protectorates in an Age of Decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 1955-60 Barnaby Crowcroft.