Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Negotiating North America’ New National Borders....Pages 27-45
‘The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago’: Australian Frontiers and Borderlands....Pages 46-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence....Pages 65-82
‘’We Are Comfortable Riding the Waves’ Landscape and the Formation of a Border State in Eighteenth-Century Island Southeast Asia....Pages 83-100
From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts: The Formalization of a Cultural Border between Mombasa and Its Hinterland....Pages 101-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Not by Force Alone: Public Health and the Establishment of Russian Rule in the Russo-Polish Borderland, 1762–85....Pages 123-142
Borders, War, and Nation-Building in Napoleon’s Europe....Pages 143-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 169-191
Church Fights: Nationality, Class, and the Politics of Church-Building in a German-Polish Borderland, 1890–1914....Pages 192-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
‘Frontier Indians’: ‘Indios Mansos,’ ‘Indios Bravos,’ and the Layers of Indigenous Existence in the Caribbean Borderlands....Pages 217-236
The Twisted Logic of the Ohio River Borderland....Pages 237-257
Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia....Pages 258-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Unofficial Frontiers: Welsh-English Borderlands in the Victorian Period....Pages 279-292
‘Home on the Range’: Rootedness and Identity in the Borderlands of the Nineteenth-Century American West....Pages 293-311
Concluding Reflections: Borderlands History and the Categories of Historical Analysis....Pages 312-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-345