Beyond Sovereignty

Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, C.1880-1950
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-54089-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, K.

Levine, P.

Trentmann, F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; K.Grant, P.Levine, & F.Trentmann Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation; P.Levine After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914-1930; F.Trentmann Towards an International Human Rights Regime during the Inter-war Years: The League of Nations' Combat of Traffic in Women and Children; B.Metzger Human Rights and Sovereign Abolitions of Slavery, c. 1885-1956; K.Grant Beyond Sovereignty?: Protestant Missions, Empire and Transnationalism, 1890-1950; J.Stuart A Shadow Nation: The Making of Muslim India; F.Devji 'A Well Selected Body of Men': Sikh Recruitment for Colonial Police and Military; T.R.Metcalf Valleys of Fear: Policing Terror in an Imperial Age, 1865-1925; R.Gregg Screening Empire from Itself: Imperial Preference, Represented Communities, and the Decent Burial of the Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927-28); M.Kale The Persistence of Privilege: British Medical Qualifications and the Practice of Medicine in the Empire; D.M.Haynes

Über Autor(innen)

FAISAL DEVJI Associate Professor of History, The New School, New York, USA
KEVIN GRANT Professor of History, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA
ROBERT GREGG Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA
DOUGLAS M. HAYNES Associate Professor of British History, the University of California, Irvine, USA
MADHAVI KALE Associate Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA
PHILIPPA LEVINE Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA
THOMAS R. METCALF Emeritus Professor of History, the University of California, Berkeley, USA
BARBARA METZGER Associate at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge, UK
JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, King's College London and Kingston University, London, UK
FRANK TRENTMANN Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK