Bargaining with the State from Afar. American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942.
New York. Columbia University Press. 2001. 306pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad."..... More