Beyond Sovereignty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine, Frank Trentmann

   Pages 1-15

3. Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation

   • Philippa Levine

   Pages 16-33

4. After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914–1930

   • Frank Trentmann

   Pages 34-53

5. Towards an International Human Rights Regime during the Inter-War Years:The League of Nations’ Combat of Traffic in Women and Children

   • Barbara Metzger

   Pages 54-79

6. Human rights and sovereign abolitions of slavery, c. 1885–1956

   • Kevin Grant

   Pages 80-102

7. Beyond sovereignty?: Protestant missions, empire and transnationalism, 1890–1950

   • John Stuart

   Pages 103-125

8. A shadow nation: The making of Muslim India

   • Faisal Devji

   Pages 126-145

9. ‘A well selected body of men’: Sikh recruitment for colonial police and military

   • Thomas R. Metcalf

   Pages 146-168

10. Valleys of fear: Policing terror in an imperial age, 1865–1925

    • Robert Gregg

    Pages 169-190

11. Screening Empire from Itself: Imperial Preference, Represented Communities, and the Decent Burial of the Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927–28)

    • Madhavi Kale

    Pages 191-213

12. The Persistence of Privilege: British Medical Qualifications and the Practice of Medicine in the Empire

    • Douglas M. Haynes

    Pages 214-239

13. Back Matter

    Pages 240-250

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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.

• body
• Britain
• British Empire
• corpus
• culture
• dynamics
• empire
• Great Britain
• human rights
• imperialism
• India
• Indian
• religion
• slavery
• women

'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

• Hamilton College, New York, USA

  Kevin Grant

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Philippa Levine

• Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  Frank Trentmann

FAISAL DEVJI Associate Professor of History, The New School, New York, USA KEVIN GRANT Professor of History, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA ROBERT GREGG Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA DOUGLAS M. HAYNES Associate Professor of British History, the University of California, Irvine, USA MADHAVI KALE Associate Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA PHILIPPA LEVINE Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA THOMAS R. METCALF Emeritus Professor of History, the University of California, Berkeley, USA BARBARA METZGER Associate at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge, UK JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, King's College London and Kingston University, London, UK FRANK TRENTMANN Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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