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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'To give to the indigenous population the same security as to the Europeans': The Mixed Courts of Egypt and the financial-legal turn of the Eastern Question -- Chapter 2: State rebuilding and the modernization of police organizations in Japan and Korea in the late nineteenth century -- Chapter 3: 'Let them have what name they will': Piracy and transimperial cooperation from Barbary to the Americas -- Chapter 4: Protecting the sanitary security of the American Empire in the 'Orient': US health measures in and beyond its Pacific colonies around 1900 -- Chapter 5: Securing Japan's civilized position in the world: Identity security and Japanese imperialism in the late nineteenth century -- Chapter 6: From the Rhine to the Congo, via the Danube: Transimperial implantations of a European river regime, 1815-85 -- Chapter 7: Civil war and diplomacy: The 1860 intervention of the Great Powers in Ottoman Syria -- Chapter 8: Creating empire, resisting empire: The Boxer Rebellion in China, 1899-1901 -- Chapter 9: Securing European civilization at the 1885 Berlin Conference and along the West African coast -- Conclusion: Transimperial security practices, nineteenth-century style -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book, 'Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century,' edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci, and Erik de Lange, explores the dynamics of imperial cooperation and competition during the 19th century. It examines a range of topics including the Mixed Courts of Egypt, the modernization of police organizations in Japan and Korea, transimperial cooperation against piracy, and health measures in the American Empire. The book also discusses the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1885 Berlin Conference, and the intervention of the Great Powers in Ottoman Syria. Through these studies, the editors aim to shed light on the practices and strategies of securing empires during a period marked by significant geopolitical shifts. The intended audience includes scholars and students of history, international relations, and imperial studies. Generated by AI.