1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462102903321

Autore

Scully Eileen P

Titolo

Bargaining with the State from Afar [[electronic resource] ] : American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

342.73

342.73/083

Soggetti

Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- China -- History

Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Foreign countries -- History

Citzenship -- China -- History

Citzenship -- United States -- History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

--  Foreign Affairs