By Nicholas Tarling
This quantity takes us into the 19th and 20th centuries, from the overdue eighteenth century of the Christian period while lots of the zone used to be included into eu empires to the complexity and dramatic switch of the post-World battle II interval. It covers the industrial and social lifestyles in addition to the non secular and pop culture of the zone over centuries. The political constructions of the quarter also are heavily tested, from the insurgencies and rebellions of early during this century to the trendy Nationalist activities and the formation of autonomous states.
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C. Baud, withdrew from the east coast pro tern. Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, was inclined to agree that Article 2 alone applied; and so the question of sovereignty, initially raised 10 Elizabeth E. D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1971, 144. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 20 FROM c. 1800 TO THE 1930s by the problem of conquest, and then asked in relation to treaties, displaced the basis of the 1824 compromise. The distinction it had tried on Castlereagh's basis to draw between treaty states and possessions was now blurred.
That was, however, made to provide a way forward for the British. New concessions led to the founding of the British North Borneo Company, and the British government, seeking a more effectual way of excluding others without directly confronting them, and providing for law and order while limiting its own responsibility, gave the Company a charter in 1881. Brunei was thus smaller still. The British government envisaged its disappearance. The protectorate agreements made in 1888 with all three states, Sarawak, North Borneo (Sabah) and Brunei, were not designed to prevent this.
Convulsive military incursions were neither supportive nor in themselves decisive. Furthermore, the Sulus were able to engage in relations with other powers, including the British, uninhibited by the formality of a treaty like that of 1824. Even when the British, and indeed other powers, finally abandoned the Sulus to their fate, the Spaniards did not secure effective control. At the outset of the period, some British authorities had been interested in limiting Spanish control in the Moro lands and in establishing themselves there.