Beyond Sovereignty

KEVIN GRANT is Professor of History at Hamilton College, USA. He is the author of A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (New York: Routledge, 2005). PHILIPPA LEVINE teaches at the University of Southern California, USA. She is author, most recently, of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York: Routledge, 2003) and Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press). FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of History at Birkbeck Coll

'In this imaginatively conceived collection of essays, ten historians offer critical analyses of demands generated by Britain's empire that subverted its own internal organisation in favour of more far-reaching structures and practices. With a welcome precision they range from police recruitment to age of consent legislation and human rights, and significantly widen the terms of this stimulating debate.' - Professor Andrew Porter, King's College London, UK 'This timely and stimulating collection from a group of talented historians explores the ways in which empires fostered transnational networks and identities, global connections and challenges. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the antecedents of the contemporary world.' - Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London 'Transnationalism - the coexistence of intense social, economic and political ties across national boundaries - is often thought to epitomize our world today. Yet the contributors to this volume richly demonstrate ways in which such global connections also characterized the imperial and nascent nation-state systems of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beyond Sovereignty is a welcome addition, if not a corrective, towards understanding a variety of far-reaching global processes.' - Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford 'Through their detailed treatment of a varied and relevant range of topics these essays enhance our understanding of the wider global and transnational processes accompanying and manifesting themselves in the collectivities that comprised the largest empire in modern history.' - Chandrika Kaul, English Historical Review

• Introduction; K.Grant , P.Levine , & F.Trentmann Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation; P.Levine After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914-1930; F.Trentmann Towards an International Human Rights Regime during the Inter-war Years: The League of Nations' Combat of Traffic in Women and Children; B.Metzger Human Rights and Sovereign Abolitions of Slavery, c. 1885-1956; K.Grant Beyond Sovereignty?: Protestant Missions, Empire and Transnationalism, 1890-1950; J.Stuart A Shadow Nation: The Making of Muslim India; F.Devji 'A Well Selected Body of Men': Sikh Recruitment for Colonial Police and Military; T.R.Metcalf Valleys of Fear: Policing Terror in an Imperial Age, 1865-1925; R.Gregg Screening Empire from Itself: Imperial Preference, Represented Communities, and the Decent Burial of the Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927-28); M.Kale The Persistence of Privilege: British Medical Qualifications and the Practice of Medicine in the Empire; D.M.Haynes