Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230626522

Topic

History

Subtopic

British History

Index

History

Cover
Beyond Sovereignty
Contents
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
2 Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation
3 After the nation-state: Citizenship, empire and global coordination in the new internationalism, 1914–19301
4 Towards an international human rights regime during the inter-war years:The league of nations’ combat of traffic in women and children1
5 Human rights and sovereign abolitions of slavery, c. 1885–1956
6 Beyond sovereignty?: Protestant missions, empire and transnationalism, 1890–1950
7 A shadow nation: The making of Muslim India
8 ‘A well selected body of men’: Sikh recruitment for colonial police and military
9 Valleys of fear: Policing terror in an imperial age, 1865–1925
10 Screening empire from itself: Imperial preference, represented communities, and the decent burial of the Indian cinematograph committee report (1927–28)
11 The persistence of privilege: British medical qualifications and the practice of medicine in the empire
Index