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Alexander Bachmann

PhD Candidate

E-Mail: Bachmann@students.uni-marburg.de

  • Dissertation Project

    Competitions of Power in the Shadow of the Indian Subcontinent. The British Empire and the Shaping of Maritime Space in the Advancing 19th Century. (Working Title)

    In the first half of the 19th century, the increasing importance of island spaces - constitutive elements of British maritime identity - for the strategic implementation and deepening of British colonial interests was clearly evident. The planned dissertation sets itself the task of examining the influence of essential constituted and constituting local networks on the geographical periphery of maritime-insular regions of the Indian Ocean. The closer examination of this region, which was strongly influenced by the British East India Company, results on the one hand from the wide range of existing interest groups and networks, and on the other hand from the geographical predisposition of the island regions within a "highly dynamic space".
    The research question of a divergence of securitization on the part of the British Empire, which emerged through the consolidation of these networks, will be investigated. Peripheral-local strategic concepts will be examined using the geographical example of Ceylon and the Maldives in the period of upheaval from the end of the 18th century to the Charter Act of 1833. The research desideratum consequently arises from a targeted investigation of port cities and their maritime and terrestrial surroundings. These serve as points of contact for the perception of imperial interests and places of unstable demarcation in relation to the division of responsibility of peripheral networks. As nodal points of military and economic development, these port cities appear to represent a potentially central structure of regional securitization, where the limits of imperial action can become apparent.

  • Curriculum Vitae

    2015-2019 Medical Studies at the University of Marburg

    2019-2024 Studies of English, History, Biology and Educational Sciences at the University of Marburg (Teacher’s Degree – Secondary Education)
    since May 2024 Teacher’s Traineeship in Hesse (Referendariat)

    since May 2024 Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Modern History (19th/20th Century) at the University of Marburg, led by Prof. Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey)