Research Catalog

Title

Borderlands in world history, 1700-1914 / edited by Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, Chad Bryant.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Supplementary Content

20150115092853

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Details

Additional Authors

• Readman, Paul
• Radding Murrieta, Cynthia
• Bryant, Chad Carl

Description

xii, 345 pages : maps (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"Borderlands have loomed large in modern world history. Industrialization, the development of the modern city, faster means of communication, the spread of imperialism and the rise of the modern nation-state have meant that borderlands came to encompass and divide more people than ever before. Borderlands were worldwide phenomena in which various authoritative institutional presences -- many of them new to world history -- attempted to establish borders, thus forming the basis for a myriad of reactions, counter-reactions, and interactions. Yet the study of borderlands has largely remained confined within the circles of various regional specializations. 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. Comprising fifteen chapters, plus a wide-ranging introduction by the editors and specially-commissioned maps, the volume critically engages with recent research while remaining accessible to student readers."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Borderlands
• Borderlands > History
• History
• Boundaries > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: borderlands in a global perspective / Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, and Chad Bryant -- Negotiating North America's new national borders / Benjamin H. Johnson -- 'The men who made Australia federated long ago': Australian frontiers and borderlands / Frank Bongiorno -- Environment, territory, and landscape changes in Northern Mexico during the era of independence / Cynthia Radding -- 'We are comfortable riding the waves': landscape and the formation of a border state in eighteenth-century island Southeast Asia / Timothy P. Barnard -- From constituting communities to dividing districts: the formalization of a cultural border between Mombasa and its hinterland / Daren Ray -- Not by force alone: public health and the establishment of Russian rule in the Russo-Polish borderland, 1762-85 / Oksana Mykhed -- Borders, war, and nation-building in Napoleon's Europe / Michael Rowe -- Living a British borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish borders in the long nineteenth century / Paul Readman -- Church fights: nationality, class, and the politics of church-building in a German-Polish borderland, 1890-1914 / Jim Bjork -- 'Frontier Indians': 'indios mansos', 'indios bravos', and the layers of indigenous existence in the Caribbean borderlands / Jason M. Yaremko -- The twisted logic of the Ohio River borderland / Matthew Salafia -- Boundaries of slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Liberia / Lisa A. Lindsay -- Unofficial frontiers: Welsh-English borderlands in the Victorian period / Roland Quinault -- 'Home on the range': rootedness and identity in the borderlands of the nineteenth-century American West / Nina Vollenbröker -- Concluding reflections: borderlands histories and the categories of historical analysis / Lloyd Kramer.

Call Number

JFE 14-5711

ISBN

• 9781137320575
• 1137320575
• 9781137320568
• 1137320567

LCCN

• 2012276690
• 9781137320568

OCLC

881509482

Title

Borderlands in world history, 1700-1914 / edited by Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, Chad Bryant.

Publisher

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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TOC

Added Author

Readman, Paul, editor.

Radding Murrieta, Cynthia, editor.

Bryant, Chad Carl, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9781137320568

Research Call Number

JFE 14-5711