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List of contents
1. Introduction: The two worlds of nineteenth-century international relations 2. Missionaries and the civilising mission in British colonialism 3. Republican privateering: Local networks and political order in the western Atlantic 4. Limits of cooperation: The German Confederation and Austro-Prussian rivalry after 1815 5. Rejecting Westphalia: Maintaining the Sinocentric system, to the end 6. Ordering Europe: The legalized hegemony of the Concert of Europe 7. Industrialization and competitive globalization after 1873: International thought and the problem of resources 8. Between European Concert and global status: The evolution of the institution of great powers, 1860s to 1910s 9. Reordering East Asian international relations after 1860 10. An evil of ancient date: Piracy and the two Pax Britannicas in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia 11. Conclusions: The value of our new historical narrative
About the author
Daniel Green is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Delaware. Trained as a comparativist and Africanist, he turned his focus to international relations theory and history in 2004 and was the Founding President of the Historical International Relations (HIST) Section of the International Studies Association in 2012. He is also the on-going organizer of HIST’s Nineteenth Century Working Group. He has published in several journals and edited volumes and is the editor of Constructivism and Comparative Politics (2002) and of Guide to the English School in International Studies (2014, with Cornelia Navari). He is currently completing a book project entitled Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International History.
Summary
This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for international relations history for the pivotal nineteenth century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be largely a long century of relative peace after 1815, the contributors offer a re-conceptualization of patterns of IR, arguing that it was in fact a "bifurcated" century.
