Bargaining with the state from afar : American citizenship in treaty port China, 1844-1942 /

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In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scully, Eileen P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Citizenship > United States > History.
Citizenship > China > History.
Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > China > History.
Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Foreign countries > History.
Exterritoriality.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Citizenship
Exterritoriality
Burgerschap.
Amerikanen.
Internationaal recht.
China
United States
China.
Verenigde Staten.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introductions and Overview; 1. Extraterritoriality in the Changing World of the Nineteenth Century; 2. Extraterrestrial Americans Before the Rush to Empire; 3. Colonizing the Colonizers; 4. Progressivism Shanghaied; 5. Wilsonianism and American Imperial Citizenship; 6. Interwar Demise of Consular Jurisdiction; Epilogue: Sojourning Americans in the Age of Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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