Beyond Sovereignty Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880-1950

Beyond Sovereigntyexplores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion.

KEVIN GRANT is Professor of History at Hamilton College. He is the author of A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (New York: Routledge, 2005).

PHILIPPA LEVINE teaches at the University of Southern California. She is author, most recently, of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York: Routledge, 2003) and Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Recent publications include The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford and New York, Berg: 2006) and Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (Oxford and New York, Berg: 2006, edited with John Brewer).