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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

"Blame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. In Personal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to an examination of the introduction in Japan and China of the seminal work on liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill's On Liberty." "Howland offers critical analyses of the translations of the book into Japanese and Chinese, which at times reveal astonishing emendations. As with their political leaders, Mill's Japanese and Chinese translators feared individual liberty could undermine the public good and standards for public behaviour, and so introduced their own moral values - Christian and Confucian, respectively - into On Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland reflects on this mistrust of individual liberty and the reception of Mill's work both in Asia and in England itself, where his liberal vision was greeted with considerable apprehension."--Jacket

Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --A Note on Conventions --1. Introduction --2. The Project of Enlightened Civilization --3. Translation Techniques and Language --4. Constructing Liberty --5. Differentiating Right and Sovereignty --6. Representing the People, Imagining Society --7. Conclusion --Notes --Glossary of Translation Words --Bibliography --Index --About the Author

D. R. Howland explores China's representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan-the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of "brushtalk," in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed

A novel form of international order was developed in the nineteenth century by international administrative unions such as the International Telegraph Union and the Universal Postal Union. This administrative internationalism posed a striking alternative to the international society of great powers, sovereignty, and forms of imperial domination, for the members of administrative unions included not only sovereign states but also semi-sovereigns, vassals, and colonies. Members were equal and bound identically to the union treaty and its international administrative law. This article examines the structure of unions and their politics of membership in the nineteenth century, and engages theories of global governance to argue that early administrative unions present a mode of international order different from theories of both global networks and the international system of neorealism. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractA novel form of international order was developed in the nineteenth century by international administrative unions such as the International Telegraph Union and the Universal Postal Union. This administrative internationalism posed a striking alternative to the international society of great powers, sovereignty, and forms of imperial domination, for the members of administrative unions included not only sovereign states but also semi-sovereigns, vassals, and colonies. Members were equal and bound identically to the union treaty and its international administrative law. This article examines the structure of unions and their politics of membership in the nineteenth century, and engages theories of global governance to argue that early administrative unions present a mode of international order different from theories of both global networks and the international system of neorealism.

AbstractIn July 1894, the Japanese navy sank the British steamshipKowshing, leased by China to transport troops to Korea. Diplomatic negotiations over compensation for the loss of the ship persisted for the next decade. In insisting upon China's responsibility, the British Foreign Office forsook the judgments of international legal experts and demonstrated that its main goals were to support British commercial interests and to encourage the position of Japan in East Asia. The surprising denoument of theKowshingincident was China's payment of damages for the ship in 1903.