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Borderlands in world history, 1700-1914 /
"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....
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Table of 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.