Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

From the Muscovites' annexation of the nearby Khanate of Astrakhan in 1556 to their expulsion from the region by the Ottomans and their allies in 1605, the North Caucasus was a contested borderland. This book considers the poorly understood first encounter between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Muscovy, drawing on both documentary and narrative primary sources.

Borderlands. --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Borderlands --- History --- Caucasus, Northern (Russia) --- Russia --- Turkey --- Foreign relations

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Borderlands --- Regionalism --- Political geography. --- Geography, Political --- Human geography --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Europe --- History. --- Historical geography. --- Political geography

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional.

Borderlands --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Africa, West --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Boundaries.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Borderlands --- Boundaries --- Borders (Geography) --- Boundary lines --- Frontiers --- Geographical boundaries --- International boundaries --- Lines, Boundary --- Natural boundaries --- Perimeters (Boundaries) --- Political boundaries --- Territory, National --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Social aspects.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions--all of which may vary by region and over time. John W.I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands. Gathering the voices of a diverse range of international scholars, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America presents case studies from ancient to modern times, highlighting topics ranging from religious conflicts to medical frontiers to petty trade. Spanning geographical regions of Europe, the Baltics, North Africa, the American West, and Mexico, these essays shed new light on the complex processes of boundary construction, maintenance, and crossing, as well as on the importance of economic, political, social, ethnic, and religious interactions in the borderlands. Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America not only forges links between past and present scholarship but also paves the way for new models and approaches in future borderlands research"--

Borderlands --- Geopolitics --- History. --- Europe --- North America --- Historical geography. --- Relations. --- World politics --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Turtle Island (Continent)