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Bargaining with the State from Afar
Eileen P. Scully
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Paperback. Traces the relationship between the U.S. federal government and sojourning Americans living in the colonial enclaves of pre-World War II China. This book explores U.S. government efforts to police an anomalous zone in the American policy and places the struggle between federal officials and U.S. nationals in the context of international law. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231121095
SKU
V9780231121095
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About Eileen P. Scully
Eileen Scully is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.
Reviews for Bargaining with the State from Afar
The strength of Scully's study is to show how nebulous international law was in the nineteenth century... especially useful. International History Review Scully's pungent, well-written, and provocative monograph sheds revealing light on a dark corner of Chinese-American relations.
Michael Schaller The Journal of American History
Michael Schaller The Journal of American History