Douglas Howland
David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History
Office: Holton 330
Phone: (414) 229-5518
e-mail: dhowland@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989
Research Interests:
Westernization in East Asia; international law and state sovereignty in China and Japan; liberalism and popular sovereignty in the 19th century
Conference Organizer:
International Law and World Order: An International Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 17-18, 2010
Teaching Areas:
Ancient China; modern China and Japan; law, sovereignty and the state; the rise of a global economy; historical methods
Courses Offered:
Hist 175: East Asian Civilization to 1600
Hist 176: East Asian Civilization Since 1600
Hist 376: History of Ancient China
Hist 377: The Rise of Modern China
Hist 378: Revolution in China
Hist 394: History of Japan to 1600
Hist 395: History of Japan Since 1600
several versions of HIST 372: Topics in Global History and HIST 402: Topics in Asian History.
Selected Publications and Awards:
"An Englishman’s Right to Hunt: Territorial Sovereignty and Extraterritorial Privilege in Japan," Monde(s): histoire, espaces, relations, no. 1 (2012): 193-211.
"Popular Sovereignty and Democratic Centralism in the People’s Republic of China," Social Text, no. 110 (2012): 1-25.
"Contraband and Private Property in the Age of Imperialism," Journal of the History of International Law 13.1 (2011): 117-153.
"The Wisconsin-Milwaukee COnference on International Law and World Order: Introduction," Journal of the History of International Law 13.1 (2011): 1-5.
"Sovereignty and the Laws of War: International Consequences of Japan's 1905 Victory over Russis," Law and History Review 29.1 (2011): 53-97.
"The Dialectics of Chauvinism: Minority Nationalities and Territorial Sovereignty in Mao Zedong’s New Democracy," Modern China 37.2 (2011): 170-201.
"Japanese Neutrality in the Nineteenth Century: International Law and Transcultural Process," Transcultural Studies 1 (2010): 14-37. (http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/transcultural/article/view/1927)
The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations, ed. Douglas Howland and Luise White (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009); including “The Foreign and the Sovereign: Extraterritoriality in East Asia,” 35-55.
"The Sinking of the S.S. Kowshing: International Law, Diplomacy, and the Sino-Japanese War," Modern Asian Studies 42.4 (2008): 673-703.
"Japan's Civilized War: International Law as Diplomacy in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)," Journal of the History of International Law 9.2 (2007): 179-201.
Personal Liberty and Public Good: The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
"On the Benefits of Foreign Relations with China: A New Development in Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theory of Civilization," in Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: Political and Cultural Aspects, ed. Joshua A. Fogel (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge Books, 2004), 21-38.
"The Predicament of Ideas in Culture: Translation and Historiography," History and Theory 42 (2003): 45-60.
Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.