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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Howland is the David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Luise White is Professor of History at the University of Florida. Klappentext The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that explores the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Sovereignty and the Study of StatesDouglas Howland and Luise White 2. Sovereignty on the Isthmus: Federalism, U.S. Empire, and the Struggle for Panama during the California Gold RushAims McGuinness 3. The Foreign and the Sovereign: Extraterritoriality in East AsiaDouglas Howland 4. Wilsonian Sovereignty in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919Leonard V. Smith 5. Colonial Sovereignty in Manchuria and ManchukuoDavid Tucker 6. Alternatives to Empire: France and Africa after World War IIFrederick Cooper 7. The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Human Rights Cases of the 1940s and 1950sMark Philip Bradley 8. What Does It Take to Be a State? Sovereignty and Sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965-1980Luise White 9. Legal Fictions after EmpireJohn D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan 10. Sovereignty after Socialism at Europe's New BordersKeith Brown 11. Environmental Security, Spatial Preservation, and State Sovereignty in Central AfricaKevin C. Dunn 12. The Paradox of Sovereignty in the BalkansAida A. Hozic 13. The Secret Lives of the "Sovereign": Rethinking Sovereignty as International MoralitySiba N. Grovogui List of Contributors Index ...
