Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914

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Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding and Chad Bryant PART I: WRITING BORDERLANDS 1. Negotiating North America's New National Borders Benjamin H. Johnson 2. 'The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago': Australian Frontiers and Borderlands Frank Bongiorno PART II: BORDERLANDS, TERRITORIALITY, AND LANDSCAPE 3. Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence Cynthia Radding 4. 'We are Comfortable Riding the Waves': Landscape and the Formation of a Border State in Eighteenth-Century Island Southeast Asia Timothy P. Barnard 5. From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts: The Formalization of a Cultural Border between Mombasa and its Hinterland Daren Ray PART III: BORDERLANDS AND STATE ACTION 6. Not by Force Alone: Public Health and the Establishment of the Russian Rule in the Russo-Polish Borderland, 1762-85 Oksana Mykhed 7. Borders, War, and Nation-Building in Napoleon's Europe Michael Rowe PART IV: NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND EUROPEAN BORDERLANDS 8. Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century Paul Readman 9. Church Fights: Nationality, Class, and the Politics of Church Building in a German-Polish Borderland, 1890-1914 Jim Bjork PART V: BORDERLANDERS: LABOR AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCE 10. 'Frontier Indians': 'Indios Mansos', 'Indios Bravos', and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands Jason M. Yaremko 11. The Twisted Logic of the Ohio River Borderland Matthew Salafia 12. Boundaries of Slavery in Mid Nineteenth-Century Liberia Lisa A. Lindsay PART VI: READING BORDERS: INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR BORDERLANDS 13. Unofficial Frontiers: Welsh-English Borderlands in the Victorian Period Roland Quinault 14. 'Home on the Range': Rootedness and Identity in the Borderlands of the Nineteenth-Century American West Nina Vollenbroeker Concluding Reflections: Borderlands Histories and the Categories of Historical Analysis Lloyd Kramer