Frontiers In Question

Author : Daniel J. Power,Naomi Standen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312216386

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Frontiers in Question by Daniel J. Power,Naomi Standen Pdf

The nine essays in this book seek to answer the questions of what made a "frontier" between the ancient and modern eras, how people imagined their frontiers, and why historians have sometimes had very different ideas of what these frontiers were like. The collection spreads across much of Europe and Asia, familiar frontiers in Western Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea, and includes examples from China, Mesopotamia, and Lithuania. Ranging from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries, the essays challenge us to rethink our modern notions of frontiers as neat lines intended to divide one state from another because frontiers in the past were often far more complex.

Author : Daniel Power,Naomi Standen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349274390

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Frontiers in Question by Daniel Power,Naomi Standen Pdf

We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

Author : Daniel Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350362786

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Frontiers in Question by Daniel Power Pdf

Annotation We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

Author : Daniel Power,Naomi Standen
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333684535

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Frontiers in Question by Daniel Power,Naomi Standen Pdf

We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

Author : Pradip Phanjoubam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317340034

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The Northeast Question by Pradip Phanjoubam Pdf

This book explores the idea, psychology and political geography of Northeast India as forged by two interrelated but autonomous meta-narratives. First, the politics of conflict inherent in, and therefore predetermined by physical geography, and second, the larger geopolitics that was unfolding during the colonial period. Unravelling the history behind the turmoil engulfing Northeast India, the study contends that certain geographies — most pertinently fertile river valleys and surrounding mountains which feed the rivers — are integral to nature and any effort to disrupt this cohesion will result in conflict. It comprehensively traces the geopolitics of the region since colonial era — in particular the Great Game; the politics that went into the making of the McMahon Line, the Radcliffe Line and the Pemberton Line; the region’s relations with its international neighbours (China, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal); as well as the issue of many formerly non-state-bearing populations awakening to the reality of the modern state. Lucid and analytical, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Northeast India, modern Indian history, international relations, defence and strategic studies, and political science.

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760463700

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On the Frontiers of History by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.

Author : Ian Peter Grohse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004343658

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Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North by Ian Peter Grohse Pdf

In Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470, Ian Peter Grohse offers an account of social and political relations in the frontier community of Orkney in the late Middle Ages.

Author : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Eastern question (Central Asia).
ISBN : NYPL:33433082408224

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Central Asia and the Anglo-Russian Frontier Question by Ármin Vámbéry Pdf

Author : Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801464386

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Frontiers of Fear by Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia Pdf

On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with profound consequences for national security and immigration policy: First, does the securitization of immigration issues actually contribute to the enhancement of internal security? Second, does the use of counterterrorist measures address such immigration issues as the increasing number of illegal immigrants, the resilience of ethnic tensions, and the emergence of homegrown radicalization? Chebel d’Appollonia questions the main assumptions that inform political agendas in the United States and throughout Europe, analyzing implementation and evaluating the effectiveness of policies in terms of their stated objectives. She argues that the new security-based immigration regime has proven ineffective in achieving its prescribed goals and even aggravated the problems it was supposed to solve: A security/insecurity cycle has been created that results in less security and less democracy. The excesses of securitization have harmed both immigration and counterterrorist policies and seriously damaged the delicate balance between security and respect for civil liberties.

Author : Malcolm Anderson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745665603

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Frontiers by Malcolm Anderson Pdf

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

Author : David Abulafia,Nora Berend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918589

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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices by David Abulafia,Nora Berend Pdf

In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction?

Author : Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice,Alejandra María Aventín Fontana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527577572

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Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice,Alejandra María Aventín Fontana Pdf

This collection gathers a variety of scholars representing various methodological perspectives and applying diverse critical lenses to analyze the idea of borders, borderlands, frontiers, and liminal space, as they are represented in literature and philosophy. The idea of the border and frontier is perhaps more important than ever: under the siege of COVID-19, with shattered illusions of a post-racial world, when a global effort is required as a response to a crisis that does not respect national or regional borders, we need to reconsider what frontiers and borders mean to us, and how to best understand them so that they do not divide, but point to areas of common knowledge, collective experiences, and shared humanity. Drawing upon examples from different continents (Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe) and from diverse specific places (such as the Mexico-US border, or the contested Palestinian frontiers), and using a variety of critical perspectives (evoking Gloria Anzaldua, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edward Said, for instance), this volume explores the idea of frontiers and borders in order to comment on their representations in literature, philosophy, music, and cinema, and on the human condition in general.

Author : Frank E. Trout
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Algeria
ISBN : 2600044957

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Morocco's Saharan Frontiers by Frank E. Trout Pdf

Author : Matthew Mosca
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804785389

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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy by Matthew Mosca Pdf

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.

Author : Steve Suib,Huangxian Ju,Serge Cosnier,Bunsho Ohtani,John D. Wade,Gil Garnier,Nosang Vincent Myung,Luís D. Carlos,Michael Kassiou,Fan Zhang,Iwao Ojima,Pellegrino Musto,Tony D. James,Thomas S. Hofer,Sam P. De Visser
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889635801

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Frontiers in Chemistry: Rising Stars by Steve Suib,Huangxian Ju,Serge Cosnier,Bunsho Ohtani,John D. Wade,Gil Garnier,Nosang Vincent Myung,Luís D. Carlos,Michael Kassiou,Fan Zhang,Iwao Ojima,Pellegrino Musto,Tony D. James,Thomas S. Hofer,Sam P. De Visser Pdf

The Frontiers in Chemistry Editorial Office team are delighted to present the inaugural “Frontiers in Chemistry: Rising Stars” article collection, showcasing the high-quality work of internationally recognized researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. All Rising Star researchers featured within this collection were individually nominated by the Journal’s Chief Editors in recognition of their potential to influence the future directions in their respective fields. The work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of the chemical sciences, and presents advances in theory, experiment and methodology with applications to compelling problems. This Editorial features the corresponding author(s) of each paper published within this important collection, ordered by section alphabetically, highlighting them as the great researchers of the future. The Frontiers in Chemistry Editorial Office team would like to thank each researcher who contributed their work to this collection. We would also like to personally thank our Chief Editors for their exemplary leadership of this article collection; their strong support and passion for this important, community-driven collection has ensured its success and global impact. Laurent Mathey, PhD Journal Development Manager