Gunboat Justice

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9888273086

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Gunboat Justice by Douglas Clark Pdf

Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court for China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in China - dispensed British and American justice in the Far East. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact, which continues to this day, on how China and Japan view the world. This book tells its history through the fascinating cast of characters both on and before the bench and the many challenging issues the courts faced including war, riots, rebellion, corruption, murder, infidelity, and, even, a failed hanging. Doug Clark, a practising lawyer who has lived in China, Japan and Korea for over 25 years, has trawled through dusty archives around the world to bring back to life this long-forgotten exotic world.

Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774845052

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Gunboat Frontier by Barry M. Gough Pdf

Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines, and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada.

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 988842274X

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Justice by Gunboat by Douglas Clark Pdf

War, riots, rebellion, sedition, corruption, assassinations, murder, infidelity, and even a failed hanging. These were just some of the many challenges faced by the British and American courts that operated in China, Japan and Korea for close to a 100 years. Established in the mid 19th Century under treaties signed when foreign gunboats forced all three countries to open to the outside world, the foreign courts had the sole right to try their own nationals to the exclusion of local courts. This book unveils the history of this system of extraterritoriality. Based on original research through archives and hundreds of trial transcripts, Justice by Gunboat tells not only the story of the courts and how China and Japan reacted to them but also of the fascinating lives of the judges, lawyers and parties before the courts. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact on the modern development of both China and Japan. For China, the period is now called the "Century of Humiliation"; for Japan the same era is celebrated. If you want to understand how both countries view the world - and each other - this book is a must read.

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capitulations
ISBN : 9888422766

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Justice by Gunboat by Douglas Clark Pdf

War, riots, rebellion, sedition, corruption, assassinations, murder, infidelity, and even a failed hanging. These were just some of the many challenges faced by the British and American courts that operated in China, Japan and Korea for close to a 100 years. Established in the mid 19th Century under treaties signed when foreign gunboats forced all three countries to open to the outside world, the foreign courts had the sole right to try their own nationals to the exclusion of local courts. This book unveils the history of this system of extraterritoriality. Based on original research through archives and hundreds of trial transcripts, Justice by Gunboat tells not only the story of the courts and how China and Ja-pan reacted to them but also of the fascinating lives of the judges, lawyers and parties before the courts. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact on the modern development of both China and Japan. For China, the period is now called the “Century of Humilia-tion”; for Japan the same era is celebrated. If you want to understand how both countries view the world - and each other - this book is a must read. A pathbreaking study of an important but long neglected topic, this book is a fascinating read and invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in law, empire and history in modern East Asia. --Dani Botsman, Professor of History, Yale University, Author of Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern JapanA vital read. Here we find a century of foreign judges, lawyers and consuls attempting to control a city that attracted a legion of adventurers, criminals and sharks like no other in history. Gunboat Justice reveals the intersection of Shanghai's formal administration and its dark underbelly. The most important book on Shanghai's history for several decades.--Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe award for best Fact Crime writingFor the first time, we now have a comprehensive, well-informed and humane account of the people and procedures in the British and American courts of East Asia. Doug Clark's book brings that world to life, and restores it to its place in our histories of the era of the ‘unequal treaties'. --Robert Bickers, author of Empire Made Me and The Scramble for China 1832-1914.

Author : James Cable
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349089178

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Gunboat Diplomacy, 1919-79 by James Cable Pdf

Author : Mrs. Phebe Ann HANAFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017726791

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Field, Gunboat, Hospital, and Prison; or, thrilling records of the heroism, ... displayed in the Union Army and Navy during the Great Rebellion. [With portrait of Col. Dahlgren.] by Mrs. Phebe Ann HANAFORD Pdf

Author : Donna Brunero,Stephanie Villalta Puig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811073687

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Life in Treaty Port China and Japan by Donna Brunero,Stephanie Villalta Puig Pdf

This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves ‘beyond the Bund’, presenting instead the history of material culture, the everyday life of the residents of the treaty ports beyond the symbology of Shanghai's waterfront. Bringing for the first time together scholars of China and Japan, museum curators, legal, economic and architectural historians, it studies the treaty ports not only as sites of cultural exchange, but also as sites of social contestation, accommodation and mobility, covering topics as varied as day to day life itself, such as family, property and law, health and welfare, travel, visual culture and memory. The call of this volume is to peel the multiple layers of the encounter between East and West in the treaty ports of China and Japan.

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9888422758

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Justice by Gunboat by Douglas Clark Pdf

Author : Clark Douglas (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 988827323X

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Gunboat Justice Volume 2 by Clark Douglas (author) Pdf

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capitulations
ISBN : OCLC:927145577

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Gunboat Justice: White man, white law, white gun (1842-1900) by Douglas Clark Pdf

"Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court fro China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in China - dispensed British and American justice in the Far East. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact, which continutes to this day, on how China and Japan view the world. This book tells its history through the fascinating cast of characters both on and before the bench and the many challenging issues the courts faced including war, riots, rebellion, corruption, murder, infidelity, and, even, a failed hanging. Doug Clark, a practising lawyer who has lived in China, Japan and Korea for over 25 years, has trawled through dusty archives around the world to bring back to life this long-forgotten exotic world"--

Author : Biko Agozino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351913003

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Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice by Biko Agozino Pdf

Criminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in comparative criminology now means that countries compare notes, thereby broadening the parameters of criminology. Still relatively ignored in the literature, however, are issues of crime and justice as they affect people of African descent around the globe. Drawing upon materials from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe, this stimulating book reflects on the experiences of people of African descent to offer a convergence of criminologies in and outside the West. Simultaneously, it acknowledges Western criminology as a significant angle from which to comprehend crime and justice as they are conceptualized outside the West. The volume also investigates whether Western criminological accounts are relevant to the comprehension of crime, criminality and systems of justice in Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

Author : Duane Huddleston,Sammie Rose,Pat Wood
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557285386

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Steamboats and Ferries on the White River by Duane Huddleston,Sammie Rose,Pat Wood Pdf

Over 120 black and white photographs, sketches, and maps illustrate the history of steamboating on the White River from the early 1800s through the Civil War and 1900s. This keenly researched study pays lasting tribute to the golden age of steam travel.

Author : Giorgio Fabio Colombo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000834765

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Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan by Giorgio Fabio Colombo Pdf

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque flying the Peruvian flag, carried Chinese indentured servants from Macau to Peru. After the ship stopped for repairs in Kanagawa Bay, a number of legal issues arose that were destined to change the perception and use of the law in Japan forever. The case had a tremendous impact on the collective imagination, both Japanese and international: it is one of the first occurrences in which an Asian country decided to resist the pressure of a Western nation, and responded using the most refined tools of domestic and international law. Moreover, the final outcome of the case (arbitration in front of the Czar of Russia) marks the debut of Japan on the stage of international arbitration. While historians have written widely on the subject, the legal importance of this event has been relatively neglected. This book uses the case to explore the technical legal issues Japan was facing in its transition from pre-modernity to modernity. These include unequal treaties, extraterritoriality clauses, the need to establish an updated judicial system, and a delicate balance between asserting sovereignty and resorting to diplomacy in solving disputes involving foreigners. Based on original documents, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and academics in the fields of legal history, dispute resolution, international law, Japanese history and Asian studies.

Author : Douglas Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capitulations
ISBN : OCLC:927145577

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Gunboat Justice: Destruction, disorder and defiance (1900-1927) by Douglas Clark Pdf

"Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court fro China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in China - dispensed British and American justice in the Far East. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact, which continutes to this day, on how China and Japan view the world. This book tells its history through the fascinating cast of characters both on and before the bench and the many challenging issues the courts faced including war, riots, rebellion, corruption, murder, infidelity, and, even, a failed hanging. Doug Clark, a practising lawyer who has lived in China, Japan and Korea for over 25 years, has trawled through dusty archives around the world to bring back to life this long-forgotten exotic world"--

Author : Brian McBeth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313002663

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Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims by Brian McBeth Pdf

The Cipriano Castro administration, which ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908, was characterized by a series of internal and external political crises which seemed capable of toppling it at any moment. In 1901, a number of foreign countries provided financial backing to Castro's former allies, united under the leadership of Manuel Antonio Matos, who almost brought the government down. In the midst of this civil war, Germany, the United Kingdom and later Italy instituted what came to be known as the peaceful blockade of Venezuela to force the government to honor its foreign debts. The claims and counter-claims stemming from the conflict would eventually force the three foreign countries to sever diplomatic relations in the ensuing years. Far from its portrayal as a nationalist champion, the Castro administration was, in McBeth's findings, more focused on the accumulation of personal wealth than on defense of Venezuelan interests. Castro would pay dearly for his misdeeds, losing power in a 1908 coup to Juan Vicente Gómez and remaining in exile until his death in 1924. The conflict would prove to be a watershed in relations with Latin America, as the United States modified its own foreign policy in response and the European powers became more aware of the limit of their political influence in the region.