Introduction, Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci & Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 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, Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 2. State Rebuilding and the Modernization of Police Organizations in Korea and Japan, Seo-Hyun Park (Lafayette College, USA) 3. 'Let Them Have What Name They Will': Piracy and Imperial Cooperation from Barbary to the Americas, Erik de Lange (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 4. Protecting the Sanitary Security of the American Empire in the "Orient": U.S. Health Measures in and Beyond its Pacific Colonies around 1900, Andrea Wiegeshoff (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) 5. Securing Japan's Civilized Position in the World: Identity Security and Japanese Imperialism in the late-nineteenth Century, Shogo Suzuki (University of Manchester, UK) 6.

From the Rhine to the Congo, via the Danube: Transimperial Implantations of a European River Regime, 1815-1885, Constantin Ardeleanu & Joep Schenk (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 7. Civil War and Diplomacy: the 1860 Intervention of the Great Powers in Ottoman Syria, Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 8. Creating Empire, Resisting Empire: The Boxer Rebellion in China, 1899-1901, David Silbey (Cornell University, USA) 9. Forgetting Two Histories: European Institutional Models, Empty Spaces, and the Failure of the 1885 Congo River Commission, Joanne Yo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Conclusion: Transimperial Security Practices, Nineteenth-Century Style, Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Bibliography Index.