Paul Samuel Reinsch
Paul S. Reinsch | |
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
Died | January 26, 1923 | (aged 53)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science |
Doctoral advisor | Frederick Jackson Turner |
Paul Samuel Reinsch (June 10, 1869 – January 26, 1923), was an American
He was a strong proponent of the Open Door Policy (a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China) and a critic of imperialism.[1][4]
Early life
Reinsch was born in
Academic career
He returned to the University of Wisconsin for additional schooling in 1895, enrolled as a PhD student in history and political science.[1] He earned a Ph.D. in political science under Frederick Jackson Turner in 1898.[5][6] While Reinsch was at the University of Wisconsin, Richard Ely founded the School of Economics, Political Science and History.[1] Reinsch was a progressive and his fellow student and friend Francis McGovern would go on to become Governor of Wisconsin and implement progressive policies.[7]
He was assistant professor of political science from 1899 to 1901, and full professor from 1901 to 1913.[6][1] He reportedly established the first course in international politics at the University of Wisconsin in 1899.[8]
In 1900, Reinsch published World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century. The book, which focuses on great power disputes over China,
Reinsch criticizes national imperialism on the basis of its threat to world peace, the subjugation of indigenous peoples and its diversion of focus from domestic reform. However, Reinsch was in favor of expansionism on the grounds of a "
Experience seems to show that even those institutions which are by us considered the very foundation of good government may have harmful results when introduced into another society. The most striking example of this is found in the experience of Great Britain in India...The system has in general had a most unfortunate effect upon the intelligent life of India, introducing elements entirely alien to Indian culture which have turned the mind of Indian educated men away from the development of their inherited philosophical and literary civilization.[10]
According to Ido Oren, "Reinsch wrote so extensively on the subject matter in which he was implicated as a diplomat and adviser—international diplomacy, international organization, and imperialism—that it becomes nearly impossible to draw a neat line separating scholarship from politics in his career."[11]
Diplomatic career
Reinsch was part of the U.S. delegation to the third and fourth Pan-American conferences in 1906 and 1910, and the first Pan-American Scientific Congress in Santiago in 1909.[12]
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Reinsch
Reinsch strongly opposed the Shandong Agreement of the Versailles Treaty, which granted Japan control over Shandong, a former German protectorate.[6] He was a proponent of Chinese sovereignty.[6]
Final years
He established a law firm in Washington D.C. in 1920.[6] He ran as the Democratic candidate in the 1920 United States Senate election in Wisconsin, placing third with 13.18% of the vote.[6]
He passed away in Shanghai in 1923 following complications from bronchial pneumonia.[6][14]
Publications
- (1899). The Common Law in the Early American Colonies.[15]
- (1900). World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century.
- (1902). Colonial Government.[10]
- (1905). Colonial Administration.[16][17][10]
- (1907). American Legislatures and Legislative Methods.[18]
- (1909). Readings on American Federal Government.
- (1909). Civil Government.
- (1911). Readings on American State Government.
- (1911). Intellectual and Political Currents in the Far East.
- (1911). Public International Unions.[19]
- (1922). An American Diplomat in China.[20]
Selected articles
- "A Parliament for China," The Atlantic, December 1, 1909.
- "Intellectual Life in Japan," The Atlantic, October 1910.
He was a contributor to the
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7914-3577-9.
- JSTOR j.ctv12sdwnm.
- S2CID 155336205.
- ^ JSTOR 3636184.
- ^ Reinsch, Paul S. (1898). "English Common Law in the Early American Colonies". Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin No. 31. Economics, Political Science, and History Series. Vol. 2. pp. 393–456.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Reinsch, Paul Samuel 1869 - 1923". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Furstenberg, Barbara Jean (1964). The scholar and public policy : an analysis of the thought of Paul S. Reinsch. UW-Madison Open Dissertations and Theses (Thesis).
- S2CID 153640855.
- S2CID 144959863.
- ^ JSTOR 2376002.
- ISSN 1537-5935.
- ^ Pugach, Noel (1979). Paul S. Reinsch, Open Door Diplomat in Action. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press.
- ^ Pugach, Noel (1969). "Making the Open Door Work: Paul S. Reinsch in China, 1913–1919," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 157–175.
- ^ Tsur, Y. T. (1923). "Paul Samuel Reinsch". Chinese Social and Political Science Review. 7: 139.
- JSTOR 1833540.
- JSTOR 2762568.
- JSTOR 2221156.
- JSTOR 2762539.
- JSTOR 1946033.
- ISSN 0002-7162.