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Paul K. Macdonald: Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics [2014] hardback Condition:New and peak performers then prepareIn the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority. In contrast, it claims that favorable social conditions helped fuel peripheral conquest. European states enjoyed greatest success when they were able to recruit local collaborators