- Editor’s Note 1
From the Executive Director 2
Letter from the President 3
Special Section: Sovereignty and World History
Introduction: Sovereignty and World History, H. Robert Baker (Georgia State University) & Daniel S. Margolies (Virginia Wesleyan College) 6
Of Islands and Sunny Beaches: Law and the Acquisition of Territory, Valentin Juetner (University of Cambridge) 7
The Twin Swords of the Sovereign: Cross-Cultural Killings in Seventeenth-Century English America, Dylan Ruediger (Georgia State University) 12
Legal Redress for Transatlantic Black Maritime Laborers in the Antebellum United States: A Case Study, Michael Schoeppner (California Institute of Technology) 17
“‘Factors of Universal Commerce:’ Bonded Warehousing and the Spatialities of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Foreign Trade Policy,” Daniel S. Margolies (Virginia Wesleyan College) 22
Free Trade Zones in Okinawa, Japan, Koji Furukawa (Chukyo University) 31
Raw Materials, Race, and Legal Regimes: The Development of the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in the Americas, Mats Ingulstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) & Lucas Lixinski (University of New South Wales) 34
U.S. Overseas Territories and the Legacy of Empire, Veta Schlimgen (Gonzaga University) 39
The Specter of Sovereignty: Reflections on Teaching about Empires and Political Imagination ,Lauren Benton (New York University) 44