History, Economics, and Political Science, Volume III; Stanford University Publications University Series

Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover very worn, with edges worn and corners bumped. Spine worn and torn. Some pages chipped and have tears repaired with tape. Some marks to text noted. 500 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Contains three monographs. No. 1. The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912 By Meribeth E. Cameron, Ph.D. (Stanford); No. 2. George D. Herron and the European Settlement by Mitchell Pirie Briggs, Ph.D. (*Stanford); and No. 3. Oriental Crime in California: A Study of Offenses Committed by Orientals in That State, 1900-1927 by Walter G. Beach. George D. Herron (January 21, 1862 – November 9, 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer and socialist activist. During World War I, Herron broke with the anti-militarist Socialist Party of America, became a self-assigned diplomat and filed regular intelligence reports on German public opinion to the American and British governments in support of the Allied war effort. In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson campaigned successfully for re-election under the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War", Herron contended that Wilson was far from neutral towards the European conflict and inferred that he was waiting for the appropriate juncture to enter the United States into the conflict Herron was considered in Europe as among the most reliable interpreters of the intentions of the Wilson administration, an assessment that was only enhanced when Herron's pronouncements came true in April 1917, only the second month of Wilson's second term as President, with American entry into the war. Meribeth Elliott Cameron (May 22, 1905 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada – July 12, 1997 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) was an American historian of China and academic who served as the 14th (Acting) President of Mount Holyoke College from 1968-1969. She was a professor of Chinese History at Mount Holyoke from 1948-1970. She served as Dean and briefly as Acting President in 1954 (during the period of President Ham) and 1966 (during the period of President Gettell). Cameron was awarded a B.A. from Stanford University in 1925 and an M.A. in 1926. She took a M.A. degree in history at Radcliffe College in 1927, then returned to Stanford to finish her dissertation, "The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912," for which she was awarded a Ph.D. in History and Political Science in 1928. She was a productive historian of China. She was one of the founding editors of Far Eastern Quarterly (later called The Journal of Asian Studies), of which she was book review editor 1941-1951. She contributed to the basic reference for Qing dynasty history, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1943). Among her journal articles and books were The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912 and a co-authored book, China, Japan and the Powers. Condition: Fair / No dust jacket issued.

Keywords: Empress Dowager, Educational Reform, Opium, Revolution, Constitutional Reform, George Herron, Diplomat, Little Entente, Woodrow Wilson, Treaty of Versailles, Criminal Justice, Delinquents, Offenders, Chinese, Japanese, Orientals

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