Nigel Brailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 712000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Brailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Brailey |
| SIGNATURE | BRAILEY N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Scramble for Concessions in 1880s Siam
It is the events of the late 1890s in China which represent the most notorious example of a 'scramble' or 'battle' for concessions in the era of Western imperialism. The five years following her defeat in her war with Japan of 1894-95 seemed to reduce China to chaos and the brink of dismemberment, when the so-called 'Boxer Rebellion' was crushed by an international army comprised mainly of Russian and Japanese troops. But the powers could not agr…
Protection or Partition
This article elucidates features of the unusual career of Ernest Satow, and calls into question the traditional emphasis on the French threat to nineteenth-century Siamese independence, as opposed to the Singapore-derived plan to annex southern Siam in the context of a partition of the country
Sir Ernest Satow, Japan and Asia
This is an article highlighting the limitations of Lord Salisbury as foreign secretary in an age when foreign policy was for the first time taking on a truly global character, and yet its practitioners still possessed a rather parochial, almost exclusively European experience, and distrusted ‘experts’. It was of course the late nineteenth-century spread of European imperialism that first called for such global policy making, and thus most of this…
Books
The Chinese Army after Mao, by Ellis Joffe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987. 210 pp. £20. ISBN 0 6745 4849 3 Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou 1955–1965, by David S. G. Goodman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. 257 pp. £22.50. ISBN 0 5213 2530 7. The China Challenge, by David S. G. Goodman, Martin Lockett and Gerald Segal. (Chatham House Papers 32) Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, New Yo…
Sir Ernest Satow, Japan and Asia
This is an article highlighting the limitations of Lord Salisbury as foreign secretary in an age when foreign policy was for the first time taking on a truly global character, and yet its practitioners still possessed a rather parochial, almost exclusively European experience, and distrusted ‘experts’. It was of course the late nineteenth-century spread of European imperialism that first called for such global policy making, and thus most of this…
The Scramble for Concessions in 1880s Siam
It is the events of the late 1890s in China which represent the most notorious example of a 'scramble' or 'battle' for concessions in the era of Western imperialism. The five years following her defeat in her war with Japan of 1894-95 seemed to reduce China to chaos and the brink of dismemberment, when the so-called 'Boxer Rebellion' was crushed by an international army comprised mainly of Russian and Japanese troops. But the powers could not agr…
Books
The Chinese Army after Mao, by Ellis Joffe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987. 210 pp. £20. ISBN 0 6745 4849 3 Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou 1955–1965, by David S. G. Goodman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. 257 pp. £22.50. ISBN 0 5213 2530 7. The China Challenge, by David S. G. Goodman, Martin Lockett and Gerald Segal. (Chatham House Papers 32) Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, New Yo…
Sir Ernest Satow, Japan and Asia
This is an article highlighting the limitations of Lord Salisbury as foreign secretary in an age when foreign policy was for the first time taking on a truly global character, and yet its practitioners still possessed a rather parochial, almost exclusively European experience, and distrusted ‘experts’. It was of course the late nineteenth-century spread of European imperialism that first called for such global policy making, and thus most of this…
Protection or Partition
This article elucidates features of the unusual career of Ernest Satow, and calls into question the traditional emphasis on the French threat to nineteenth-century Siamese independence, as opposed to the Singapore-derived plan to annex southern Siam in the context of a partition of the country
The Scramble for Concessions in 1880s Siam
It is the events of the late 1890s in China which represent the most notorious example of a 'scramble' or 'battle' for concessions in the era of Western imperialism. The five years following her defeat in her war with Japan of 1894-95 seemed to reduce China to chaos and the brink of dismemberment, when the so-called 'Boxer Rebellion' was crushed by an international army comprised mainly of Russian and Japanese troops. But the powers could not agr…
History (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · China (2 works) · Communism (2 works)