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
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:
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.
"Samurai Status, Class, and Bureaucracy: A Historiographical Essay," Journal of Asian Studies 62.2 (2001): 353-380.
"Translating Liberty in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Journal of the History of Ideas 62.1 (2001): 161-181.