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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howland, Douglas, 1955-

White, Luise.

Series:

21st Century studies ; v. 3.

21st Century studies ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Sovereignty--Case studies.

Physical Description:

284 p. : maps.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-10342-3

1-282-26317-X

0-253-00312-1

9786612103421

9786612263170

0-253-00268-0

OCLC:

370861768