Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Extraterritoriality in the Nineteenth Century -- Extraterritoriality and Nineteenth-Century Sovereignty -- Explaining the Abolition of Extraterritoriality -- Hegemony, Law, and Imperialism -- The Plan of the Book -- 1 Positive Law and Sovereignty -- The Jurisprudence of Sovereignty and Imperialism -- Positivism and the Domestic Legal Order: Sovereign-Centric Legal Absolutism -- Positivism and the International Legal Order: The Primacy of Sovereignty -- Constructivism, Orientalism, and Imperialism -- Trade, Law, and Imperialism -- 2 Extraterritoriality and Legal Imperialism -- The Rise of Extraterritoriality -- The Non-Western Response to Extraterritoriality -- Explaining the Abolition of Extraterritoriality -- Domestic Legalization and Extraterritoriality -- Power Politics, Legalization, and Extraterritoriality -- The English School, Legalization, and Extraterritoriality -- Notes on the Research Design -- 3 Japan's Rapid Rise to Sovereignty -- Meiji State Building in an International Context -- Strategic Competition in East Asia -- "Rich Nation and Strong Army" -- Early Meiji Reforms and Extraterritoriality -- Meiji Legal Reorganization (1868-1912) -- Negotiating Extraterritoriality -- Meiji Modernization and International Society -- The Abolition of Extraterritoriality -- Meiji Legal Reforms (1882-1899) -- Western Foreigners in Meiji Japan -- Conclusion -- 4 The Ottoman Empire's Elusive Dream of Sovereignty -- The Ottoman Empire in European International Society -- Ottoman Empire's Domestic Legalization -- Legal Reorganization and Reform -- From the Paris Conference to the "Istanbul Conference" -- Foreign Office Discussions on Extraterritoriality -- Edmund Hornby's Reports on the Ottoman Legal System.

The U.S. State Department Report on Extraterritoriality -- Ottoman Land Law and Extraterritoriality -- Foreign Office Discussions on Extraterritoriality -- Edmund Hornby's Reports on the Ottoman Legal System -- The U.S. State Department Report on Extraterritoriality -- Ottoman Land Law and Extraterritoriality -- World War I and the Changing International Environment -- The Lausanne Conference -- Turkey's Domestic Legalization -- Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty -- Foreigners' Judicial Safeguards and Turkish Sovereignty -- Judicial Declaration -- Conclusion -- 5 China's Struggle for Sovereignty -- Republican China in the International System -- China in International Society -- Legal Reforms and the Commission on Extraterritoriality -- The Late Qing and Early Republican Legal Reforms -- Foreign Business and Missionary Communities and Extraterritoriality -- The Commission on Extraterritoriality -- The Guomindang Legal Reforms -- Extraterritoriality Negotiations -- Extraterritoriality in a New World International Order -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: American Legal Imperialism - Extraterritoriality Today -- Bibliography -- A. Datasets -- B. Documentary and archival Sources -- C. Books and articles -- Index.