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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cassel, Pèar Kristoffer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2012, c2012
Series:Oxford studies in international history / Oxford studies in international history
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
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
Physical Description:xi, 260 p. ill
ISBN:9780199932573