Borderlines In Borderlands

Author : Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742556360

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Borderlines and Borderlands by Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen Pdf

From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders. What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was created by people. No political border is more natural or real than another, yet some international borders make no apparent sense at all. While focusing on some of these unusual border shapes, this fascinating book highlights the important truth that all borders, even those that appear "normal," are social constructions. In an era where the continued relevance of the nation state is being questioned and where transnationalism is altering the degree to which borders effectively demarcate spaces of belonging, the contributors argue that this point is vital to our understanding of the world. The unique and compelling histories of some of the world's oddest borders provide an ideal context for this group of experts to offer accessible and enlightening discussions of cultural globalization, economic integration, international migration, imperialism, postcolonialism, global terrorism, nationalism, and supranationalism. Each author's regional expertise enriches a textured account of the historical context in which these borders came into existence as well as their historical and ongoing influence on the people and states they bound. To view more maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection, visit www.davidrumsey.com. Contributions by: Eric D. Carter, Karen Culcasi, Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen, Reece Jones, Robert Lloyd, Nick Megoran, Julian V. Minghi, David Newman, Robert Ostergren, and William C. Rowe.

Author : Stephen J. Randall,Herman W. Konrad
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : 9781895176636

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NAFTA in Transition by Stephen J. Randall,Herman W. Konrad Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of the evolving trilateral relationship among the three countries of North America. Contributors address such topics as energy, the environment, trade, labour, the maquiladora industrial sector of Mexico, the Mexican auto industry, and Canada - U.S. cultural relations.While other publications have focused on U.S. issues, this one emphasizes Canada and Mexico, yet adds significantly to our understanding of the place of the United States in this evolving trilateral relationship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Université Paris X-Nanterre
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Boundaries in literature
ISBN : 2907335324

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Borderlines, Borderlands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katherine Benton-Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674053557

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Borderline Americans by Katherine Benton-Cohen Pdf

“Are you an American, or are you not?” This is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries. By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-Cohen’s insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.

Author : J. C. A. Stagg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300153286

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Borderlines in Borderlands by J. C. A. Stagg Pdf

In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this text reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. The author also describes how a myriad cast of local leaders, officials and other small players affected the borderlands diplomacy between the United States and Spain.

Author : Thomas P. Cavanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498506205

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Hubris, Self-Interest, and America's Failed War in Afghanistan by Thomas P. Cavanna Pdf

This book describes the conduct of the US-led post-9/11 war in Afghanistan. Adopting a long-term perspective, it argues that even though Washington initially had an opportunity to achieve its security goals and give Afghanistan a chance to enter a new era, it compromised any possibility of success from the very moment it let bin Laden escape to Pakistan in December 2001, and found itself locked in a strategic overreach. Given the bureaucratic and rhetorical momentum triggered by the war on terror in America, the Bush Administration was bound to deploy more resources in Afghanistan sooner or later (despite its focus on Iraq). The need to satisfy unfulfilled counter-terrorism objectives made the US dependent on Afghanistan’s warlords, which compromised the country’s stability and tarnished its new political system. The extension of the US military presence made Washington lose its leverage on the Pakistan army leaders, who, aware of America’s logistical dependency on Islamabad, supported the Afghan insurgents – their historical proxies - more and more openly. The extension of the war also contributed to radicalize segments of the Afghan and Pakistani populations, destabilizing the area further. In the meantime, the need to justify the extension of its military presence influenced the US-led coalition into proclaiming its determination to democratize and reconstruct Afghanistan. While highly opportunistic, the emergence of these policies proved both self-defeating and unsustainable due to an inescapable collision between the US-led coalition’s inherent self-interest, hubris, limited knowledge, limited attention span and limited resources, and, on the other hand, Afghanistan’s inherent complexity. As the critical contradictions at the very heart of the campaign increased with the extension of the latter’s duration, scale, and cost, America’s leaders, entrapped in path-dependence, lost their strategic flexibility. Despite debates on troops/resource allocation and more sophisticated doctrines, they repeated the same structural mistakes over and over again. The strategic overreach became self-sustaining, until its costs became intolerable, leading to a drawdown which has more to do with a pervasive sense of failure than with the accomplishment of any noble purpose or strategic breakthrough.

Author : Andrew Shankman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317814962

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The World of the Revolutionary American Republic by Andrew Shankman Pdf

In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American continent. The World of the Revolutionary American Republic brings together original essays from an array of scholars to illuminate the issues that made this era so contested. Drawing on the latest research, the essays examine the conflicts that occurred both within the Republic and between the different peoples inhabiting the continent. Covering issues including slavery, westward expansion, the impact of Revolutionary ideals, and the economy, this collection provides a diverse range of insights into the turbulent era in which the United States emerged as a nation. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, both American and international, The World of the Revolutionary American Republic is an important resource for any scholar of early America.

Author : David Head
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820348650

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Privateers of the Americas by David Head Pdf

Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there is no comparable work. Because privateering further complicated international dealings during the already tumultuous Age of Revolution, the book also offers a new perspective on the diplomatic and Atlantic history of the early American republic. Seafarers living in the United States secured commissions from Spanish American nations, attacked Spanish vessels, and returned to sell their captured cargoes (which sometimes included slaves) from bases in Baltimore, New Orleans, and Galveston and on Amelia Island. Privateers sold millions of dollars of goods to untold numbers of ordinary Americans. Their collective enterprise involved more than a hundred vessels and thousands of people--not only ships' crews but investors, merchants, suppliers, and others. They angered foreign diplomats, worried American officials, and muddied U.S. foreign relations. David Head looks at how Spanish American privateering worked and who engaged in it; how the U.S. government responded; how privateers and their supporters evaded or exploited laws and international relations; what motivated men to choose this line of work; and ultimately, what it meant to them to sail for the new republics of Spanish America. His findings broaden our understanding of the experience of being an American in a wider world.

Author : Maiah Jaskoski,Arturo C. Sotomayor,Harold A. Trinkunas
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421418308

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American Crossings by Maiah Jaskoski,Arturo C. Sotomayor,Harold A. Trinkunas Pdf

US Agencies at the Mexican Border were overwhelmed in 2014 as tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arrived from Central America. Unprepared to receive migrants of this particular kind, the US government deployed troops to carry out a new border mission: the feeding, care, and housing-of this wave of children. This event highlights the complex social, economic, and political issues that arise along international borders. In American Crossings, nine scholars consider the complicated modern history of borders in the Western Hemisphere, examining them as geopolitical boundaries, key locations for internal security, spaces for international-trade, and areas where national and community identities are defined.

Author : Regis Darques
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319409252

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Mapping Versatile Boundaries by Regis Darques Pdf

This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses. It provides unique mapping perspectives on the Balkan region, with over 140 illustrations. The book is dedicated to applied, historical and economic geographers, as well as political scientists.Because of its high fragmentation, the Balkan area has not been studied on a systematic transnational basis. The persistence of frozen and/or open conflicts has also turned the border issue into an absolute taboo subject for the scientific community and civil society. This results in an apparent “chaos” that most Western observers fail to understand.

Author : Lee Rodney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317552758

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Looking Beyond Borderlines by Lee Rodney Pdf

American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.

Author : Eliga H. Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674065024

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Among the Powers of the Earth by Eliga H. Gould Pdf

"For most Americans, the Revolution's main achievement is summed up by the phrase 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Yet far from a straightforward attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776. America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become a colonizing power itself. The Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To conform to the public law of Europe's imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes heavier than any they had faced as British colonists, and remained entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended. No factor weighed more heavily on Americans than the legally plural Atlantic where they hoped to build their empire. Gould follows the region's transfiguration from a fluid periphery with its own rules and norms to a place where people of all descriptions were expected to abide by the laws of Western Europe -- 'civilized' laws that precluded neither slavery nor the dispossession of Native Americans."--Jacket

Author : Jeremy D. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107121607

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James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection by Jeremy D. Bailey Pdf

The book liberates James Madison from Madisonian Constitutionalism and focuses on Madison's treatment of the problem of constitutional imperfection.

Author : Machteld Venken,Virpi Kaisto,Chiara Brambilla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000590258

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Children, Young People and Borders by Machteld Venken,Virpi Kaisto,Chiara Brambilla Pdf

This edited volume increases knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders, as well as highlights the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders. The study of borders and borderlands is growing extensively, but the experiences of children and young people in the turmoil of border changes and border crossings remain under-researched. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume has a twofold objective: to increase knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders; and to highlight the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders, with the aim of advancing the theoretical and empirical debate within border studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Author : Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920338855

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Reflections on War by Ian Liebenberg Pdf

Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war - showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.