韩国裸舞

Abstract

One of the processes that characterised the late nineteenth century was state expansion, not only by the European empires but also by modernising states in different parts of the Indian Ocean World. As a result, large areas that had previously been autonomous and, to a large degree, isolated from the emerging global market were integrated into the state system and the capitalist economy. This integrative process involved the deployment of violence by states such as Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as Malay states. The violence took various forms, from cattle raids to outright conquest, with the common feature being that they led to the destruction of the economic bases of the indigenous societies being targeted, and to a subjection of their population to the expanding state.

Using the travelogues of the Russian explorers Wilhelm (Vasily) Junker, Alexander Bulatovich and Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, this paper examines the process of state expansion in east-central Africa and South-East Asia in this period. Apart from an overview of the socioeconomic structures underpinning the societies of the conquerors and the conquered, this paper also seeks to elucidate the factors that caused and sustained the expansionist drives, and what brought them a measure of success.

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About the Speaker

Rashed Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Classical Studies, 韩国裸舞 University.