Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective

   1. Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective

      • Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding, Chad Bryant

      Pages 1-23

3. Writing Borderlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Negotiating North America’ New National Borders

      • Benjamin H. Johnson

      Pages 27-45

   3. ‘The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago’: Australian Frontiers and Borderlands

      • Frank Bongiorno

      Pages 46-62

4. Borderlands, Territoriality, and Landscape

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence

      • Cynthia Radding

      Pages 65-82

   3. ‘’We Are Comfortable Riding the Waves’ Landscape and the Formation of a Border State in Eighteenth-Century Island Southeast Asia

      • Timothy P. Barnard

      Pages 83-100

   4. From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts: The Formalization of a Cultural Border between Mombasa and Its Hinterland

      • Daren Ray

      Pages 101-120

5. Borderlands and State Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Not by Force Alone: Public Health and the Establishment of Russian Rule in the Russo-Polish Borderland, 1762–85

      • Oksana Mykhed

      Pages 123-142

   3. Borders, War, and Nation-Building in Napoleon’s Europe

      • Michael Rowe

      Pages 143-165

6. National Identities and European Borderlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century

      • Paul Readman

      Pages 169-191

   3. Church Fights: Nationality, Class, and the Politics of Church-Building in a German-Polish Borderland, 1890–1914

      • Jim Bjork

      Pages 192-213

7. Labor and Social Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. ‘Frontier Indians’: ‘Indios Mansos,’ ‘Indios Bravos,’ and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands

      • Jason M. Yaremko

      Pages 217-236

   3. The Twisted Logic of the Ohio River Borderland

      • Matthew Salafia

      Pages 237-257

   4. Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia

      • Lisa A. Lindsay

      Pages 258-275

8. Reading Borders: Individuals and Their Borderlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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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
• Modern History
• Borderlands
• Borderland Studies
• Frontiers
• Boundaries
• Europe
• history
• Napoleon
• North America
• Polis
• world history

• King’s College London, UK

  Paul Readman

• The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

  Cynthia Radding, Chad Bryant

Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore Jim Bjork, King's College London, UK Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University in Canberra Benjamin H. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, UK Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Lisa A. Lindsay, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Oksana Mykhed, Harvard University, USA Roland Quinault, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK Daren Ray, The American University, Egypt Michael Rowe, King's College London, UK Matthew Salafia, North Dakota State University, USA Nina Vollenbröker, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK Jason M. Yaremko, University of Winnipeg, Canada

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