Grounds of judgment : extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan /
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the 19th century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. This book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power operated in East Asia from the 1820s to the 1920s.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in international history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the 19th century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. This book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power operated in East Asia from the 1820s to the 1920s. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199932573 9780199932573 1283348918 9781283348911 9780199792054 0199792054 0199924287 9780199924288 0199792127 9780199792122 9786613348913 6613348910 |