GlobeColloquium
Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century
How did the quest for security reshape the world during the 19th century? Co-Editor Ozan Ozavci and one of the authors, Andrea Wiegeshoff, will discuss their recent publication.
A cooperation ReCentGlobe with the Transimperial History Centre, the Department of East Asian Studies & the Historic Seminar. This event is held in English.
Mit Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht) & Andrea Wiegeshoff (Marburg)
This session of our GlobeColloquium discusses a new book co-edited by Ozan Ozavci that explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history. In our GlobeColloquium he will explain this approach to imperial and international history, contending that security should be studied as a force in its own right, one that drove processes of colonization, civilization and commerce. The volume „Securing Empire” shows how cooperation between and across empires hinged on shared notions of threats and common ways of countering them.
As one of the authors, Andrea Wiegeshoff will elaborate on her case study that deals with U.S. health measures in and beyond its Pacific colonies around 1900 and how it tried to protect the sanitary security of the American empire in the “Orient”.
Graaf, B. de, Ozavci, O., & Lange, E. de. (2024). Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Dr. Ozan Ozavci is Associate Professor at Utrecht University of transimperial history. The main focus of his research is on global north-south relations, particularly in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, analyzing imperial military, legal, financial, and health interventions and cooperation since the late eighteenth century.
Dr. Andrea Wiegeshoff is head of the subproject C08 — Security and Empire. Dynamics of Securitization in Colonial Spaces of the British Empire, 1780-1920 as part of the CRC 138 Dynamics of Security at the University of Marburg. She studied medieval and modern history, law and political science in Marburg and Paris.