The state of sovereignty [electronic resource] : territories, laws, populations / edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White.

ISBN:

9780253002686

9780253352316

9780253220165

9781282263178

Title:

The state of sovereignty [electronic resource] : territories, laws, populations / edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White.

Author:

Howland, Douglas, 1955-

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages) : maps.

Series:

21st century studies ; v. 3

Contents:

Introduction : sovereignty and the study of states / Douglas Howland and Luise White -- Sovereignty on the isthmus : federalism, U.S. empire, and the struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush / Aims McGuinness -- The foreign and the sovereign : extraterritoriality in East Asia / Douglas Howland -- Wilsonian sovereignty in the Middle East : the King-Crane Commission report of 1919 / Leonard V. Smith -- Colonial sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo / David Tucker -- Alternatives to empire : France and Africa after World War II / Frederick Cooper -- The ambiguities of sovereignty : the United States and the global human rights cases of the 1940s and 1950s / Mark Philip Bradley -- What does it take to be a state? : sovereignty and sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965-1980 / Luise White -- Legal fictions after empire / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders / Keith Brown -- Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa / Kevin C. Dunn -- The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans / Aida A. Hozic -- The secret lives of the "sovereign" : rethinking sovereignty as international morality / Siba N. Grovogui.

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Subject Term:

Sovereignty.

Sovereignty -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Howland, Douglas, 1955-

White, Luise.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

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.