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Title: From scattered outposts into a Global Imperial Network : A case study on how Mediterranean zones integrated in the global economic system during the nineteenth century
Authors: Chircop, John
Keywords: Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Technology and civilization -- History -- 19th century
Malta -- History -- British occupation, 1800-1964
Ionian Islands (Greece) -- History -- 19th centutury
Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Imperialism -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: 이담 Books
Citation: Chircop, J. (2017). From Scattered outposts into a Global Imperial Network : A case study on how Mediterranean zones integrated in the global economic system during the nineteenth century. In K. Jung Ha (Ed.), Mediterranean Civilizations (pp. 453-488). South Korea: 이담 Books.
Abstract: This essay presents the argument that the Mediterranean was incorporated, in a fragmented manner, into the world economic system ushered in by western colonial expansion. This entailed an intricate process of integration that was facilitated by modern technology, particularly the steamship, the railway and the cable telegraph. Such technological innovations, as D.A. Headrick has argued, were 'tools of empire' (Headrick 1981; 1988; Das Gupta 2007) used by industrial countries to link scattered ports and territories under their rule into regional networks and colonial systems, which in turn facilitated their integration into an emergent global capitalist economy. Critically, engaging with a growing corpus of historical literature this essay explores the building of modern Western European empires as essentially the creation of webs of linkages and colonial networks through which capital, commodities, labour, troops and migrants were channelled from one part to another (Bayly 2004; Magee and Thompson 2011; Potter 2007, 621-27). Set against this backdrop, this research work focuses on the construction of the British colonial network in the Mediterranean which, although it developed from a regional chain of colonial ports into the so-called Lifeline ef the British Empire by the end of the 19th century, remains relatively under-researched.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/104098
ISBN: 9788926879542
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