Frontiers and the writing of history, 1500-1850
By: edited by Steven G. Ellis and Raingard Esser
Contributors: Ellis, Steven G., 1950-; Esser, Raingard
Edition: 1. Aufl
Series: The formation of Europe -- v. 1 = -- Historische Formationen Europas ;  Bd. 1; Formation of Europe -- v. 1
Publisher: Wehrhahn
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hannover-Laatzen
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783865252517
Subjects: Boundaries -- Historiography; Europe -- History -- 1492- -- Historiography; Europe -- Boundaries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-302) and index

In English; series introduction in English and German
Table of contents: title: Introduction: early modern frontiers in comparative context -- Steven G. Ellis -- and -- Ringard Esser; title: Borders and boundaries in early modern Europe: problems and possibilities -- Günter Vogler; title: Frontiers between geography and history -- Günter Lottes; title: Defending English ground: the Tudor frontiers in history and historiography -- Steven G. Ellis; title: Making the plantations British, 1603-38 -- Allan Macinnes; title: North and south: regional and urban identities in the 17th-century Netherlands -- Raingard Esser; title: Defining the confessional frontier: Bavaria, the Upper Palatinate and counter-reformation "historia sacra" -- Trevor Johnson; title: The composite state in the classic narratives of Ranke, Droysen and Hintze: regional identify in 17th-century Prussia between Brandenburg and Poland -- Joachim Eibach; title: Regional identity in a German frontier province: the Land of Schleswig-Holstein -- Thomas Riis; title: The historiography of the triplex confinium: conflict and community on a triple frontier, 16th-18th centuries -- Wendy Bracewell; title: Border, buffer and bulwark. The historiography of the military frontier, 1521-1881 -- William O'Reilly; title: "Enclave" and "exclave" on the North American revolutionary frontier: Schönbrunn and Welhik Thuppeck -- Hermann Wellenreuther; title: Frontiers, landscape and ideology in the 19th-century USA: the Yosemite-- Claudia Schnurmann