Bargaining with the State from Afar American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942

Name: Bargaining with the State from Afar American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942
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ISBN: 9780231121095

ISBN-10: 0231121091

ISBN-13: 9780231121095

Edition: 2001

Authors: Eileen Scully, Eileen Scully

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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 luxury abroad is usually a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction. What exactly is the obligation of a state toward citizens who live outside its borders? Bargaining with the State from Afar traces the relationship between the United States federal government and sojourning Americans living in the colonial enclaves of pre-World War II China. This group of…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction and Overview



Extraterritoriality in the Changing World of the Nineteenth Century



Extraterritorial Americans, Before the Rush to Empire



Colonizing the Colonizers



Progressivism Shanghaied



Wilsonianism and American Imperial Citizenship



Interwar Demise of Consular Jurisdiction


Epilogue: Sojourning Americans in the Age of Empire


Notes


Bibliography


Index