Hinterland: The political history of a geographic category from the scramble for Africa to Afro-Asian solidarity

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Matthew Unangst
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Abstract This article traces the history of one geographical concept, hinterland, through changing political contexts from the 1880s through the 1970s. Hinterland proved a valuable tool for states attempting to challenge the global territorial order in both the Scramble for Africa and the postwar world of nation-states. In the context of German territorial demands in East Africa, colonial propagandists used hinterland to knit together the first longue-durée histories of the Indian Ocean to cast Zanzibar as a failed colonial power and win control of the coast. In the 1940s, Indian nationalists revived hinterland as a concept for writing about the Indian Ocean, utilizing the concept to link areas far from the ocean to an informal Indian empire that could be rebuilt to its premodern glory through naval expansion. In both contexts, hinterland provided a geographical framework to challenge British dominance on the Indian Ocean. The shifting meaning and usage of the term indicates continuities in territoriality between the Scramble for Africa and postwar internationalism.
腹地:从争夺非洲到亚非团结的地理范畴的政治史
摘要本文通过从19世纪80年代到70年代不断变化的政治背景,追溯了腹地这一地理概念的历史。事实证明,对于那些试图在争夺非洲和战后民族国家世界中挑战全球领土秩序的国家来说,腹地是一个宝贵的工具。在德国对东非领土要求的背景下,殖民宣传人员利用腹地将印度洋的第一段漫长历史编织在一起,将桑给巴尔描绘成一个失败的殖民大国,并赢得对海岸的控制。20世纪40年代,印度民族主义者复兴了腹地,将其作为一个关于印度洋的写作概念,利用这个概念将远离海洋的地区与一个非正式的印度帝国联系起来,这个帝国可以通过海军扩张重建到现代前的辉煌。在这两种情况下,腹地都为挑战英国在印度洋的主导地位提供了地理框架。这个词的含义和用法的变化表明,在争夺非洲和战后国际主义之间,领土的连续性。
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3.30
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5.30%
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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