Table of Contents

Introduction Great Powers and Little Wars: Limits of Power India and the North-West Frontier The Aceh War and the Creation of the Netherlands East Indies State Hazou, Fazou, Tazou: Forest, Fire and Fever: The French Occupation of Madagascar The Boer War Limits to Power: The U.S. Conquest of the Philipines The Limits of Financial Power: Japanese Foreign Borrowing and the Russo-Japanese War The Italian-Ethiopian War, October 1935-November 1941: Causes, Conduct and Consequences Afterword: The Imperial Contract: An Ethnology of Power

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Addresses a timely subject--the question of small wars and the limits of power from a historical perspective. The theme is developed through case studies of small wars that the Great Powers conducted in Africa and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

About the Author

A. HAMISH ION is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Royal Military College of Canada. Ion is the author of The Cross and The Rising Sun: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931 (1990).

E. J. ERRINGTON is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Royal Military College of Canada. Errington's publications include The Lion, The Eagle and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology (1987).

Reviews

?. . . a splendid study of the influence of imperialism upon Great Power military involvement in regional conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.?-The Friday Review of Defense Literature

?The editors point out direct and indirect comparisons between late nineteenth century little wars and the present era of persistent regional wars that have interrupted peace in the postnuclear world. The book is a valuable addition that will be of interest to a broad readership.?-Canadian Journal of History

." . . a splendid study of the influence of imperialism upon Great Power military involvement in regional conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."-The Friday Review of Defense Literature

"The editors point out direct and indirect comparisons between late nineteenth century little wars and the present era of persistent regional wars that have interrupted peace in the postnuclear world. The book is a valuable addition that will be of interest to a broad readership."-Canadian Journal of History