Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 [electronic resource] /
Readman, P.editor.
Radding, C.editor.
Bryant, C.editor.
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective; Part I: Writing Borderlands; 1 Negotiating North America''s New National Borders; 2 ''The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago'': Australian Frontiers and Borderlands; Part II: Borderlands, Territoriality, and Landscape; 3 Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence; 4 ''We Are Comfortable Riding the Waves'': Landscape and the Formation of a Border State in Eighteenth-Century Island Southeast Asia
5 From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts: The Formalization of a Cultural Border between Mombasa and Its HinterlandPart III: Borderlands and State Action; 6 Not by Force Alone: Public Health and the Establishment of Russian Rule in the Russo-Polish Borderland, 1762-85; 7 Borders, War, and Nation-Building in Napoleon''s Europe; Part IV: National Identities and European Borderlands; 8 Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century
9 Church Fights: Nationality, Class, and the Politics of Church-Building in a German-Polish Borderland, 1890-1914Part V: Labor and Social Experience; 10 ''Frontier Indians'': ''Indios Mansos,'' ''Indios Bravos,'' and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands; 11 The Twisted Logic of the Ohio River Borderland; 12 Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia; Part VI: Reading Borders: Individuals and Their Borderlands; 13 Unofficial Frontiers: Welsh-English Borderlands in the Victorian Period
14 ''Home on the Range'': Rootedness and Identity in the Borderlands of the Nineteenth-Century American WestConcluding Reflections: Borderlands History and the Categories of Historical Analysis; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.
World history.
World politics.
Geography.
History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Human geography.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Political History.
Geography, general.
Modern History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Human Geography.