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Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before.Contested Spaces of Early America brings together some of the most distinguished historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America.Contributors: Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay, Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hämäläinen, Raúl José Mandrini, Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel Truett.

Borderlands --- Indians --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- History. --- Land tenure. --- America --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- History --- Colonization. --- Historical geography. --- American History. --- American Studies.

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In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase--Narrett sheds new light on individual colonial adventurers and schemers who shaped history through cross-border trade, settlement projects involving slave and free labor, and military incursions aimed at Spanish and Indian territories. Narrett examines the clash of empires and nationalities from diverse perspectives. He weighs the challenges facing Native Americans along with the competition between Spanish, French, British, and U.S. interests. In a turbulent era, the Louisiana and Florida borderlands were shaken by tremors from the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. By demonstrating pervasive intrigue and subterfuge in borderland rivalries, Narrett shows that U.S. Manifest Destiny was not a linear or inevitable progression. He offers a fresh interpretation of how events in the Louisiana and Florida borderlands altered the North American balance of power, and affected the history of the Atlantic world.

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Die Raum- und Identitätsforschung arbeitet mit Unterscheidungen und Relationen. Diese sind als heuristische Instrumente besonders in Grenzregionen gewinnbringend, wenn soziale und geopolitische Markierungen auseinanderfallen. Die Beiträge des Bandes setzen hier an. Anhand empirischer Erhebungen in Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien und Luxemburg untersuchen sie Raum- und Identitätskonstruktionen in grenzüberschreitenden Bezügen, wie sie sich in alltäglichen, institutionellen und medialen Praktiken manifestieren. Die Ergebnisse werden mit sensiblem Blick für quer liegende Räume und Identitäten diskutiert und an gouvernementale Fragen der Normierung und Subjektivierung rückgebunden. »Das Werk ist nicht nur aus konzeptioneller Perspektive, sondern aufgrund der konkreten Erkenntnisse zur Untersuchungsregion auch aus idiomatischem Interesse ein Gewinn. Die Heterogenität der Fallstudien kann als besonderer Attraktionspunkt verstanden werden, da dieses Kaleidoskop an Themen im Grenzraum Luxemburg, Frankreich, Belgien und Deutschland die kreative und vielfältige Programmatik der gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Grenzregionenforschung dokumentiert.« Marco Trienes, Geographische Zeitschrift, 4 (2016) »Ausgesprochen anregend und abwechslungsreich. Wer Anregungen sucht, was alltägliche Regionalisierung im Werlenschen Sinne konkret bedeutet, der bekommt hier reichhaltige Antworten. Wer sich für das Konzept der Grenze in seinem Facettenreichtum und in seiner konzeptionellen Tiefe interessiert, auch dem sei das Buch empfohlen.« Tobias Chilla, Raumforschung Raumordnung, 74 (2016) »Die Lektüre ist ausgesprochen anregend und abwechslungsreich. Wer Anregungen sucht, was alltägliche Regionalisierung im Werlenschen Sinne konkret bedeutet, der bekommt hier reichhaltige Antworten. Wer sich für das Konzept der Grenze in seinem Facettenreichtum und in seiner konzeptionellen Tiefe interessiert, auch dem sei das Buch empfohlen.« Tobias Chilla, Raumforschung Raumordnung, 22.06.2016 »Durch die Klarheit der Fragestellung, die stringente Abarbeitung der einzelnen Themen und die sehr gute Lesbarkeit präsentiert der Band genau [die] fundierte, interdisziplinäre Grundlage, die für weitere Arbeiten unverzichtbar ist.« Carlo Lejeune, Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter, 79 (2015) »Der Band [bietet] eine Fülle von theoretischen und forschungspraktischen Anregungen. Er sei all denjenigen zur Lektüre empfohlen, die wissen wollen, wie Räume und Identitäten in Grenzregionen tagtäglich gemacht werden.« Julia Lossau, Hémecht, 2 (2015)/recensio.net, 2 (2015) »Das interdisziplinäre, auf transkommunikative Initiativen bauende Luxemburger Forschungsprojekt kann als ein Exempel dafür gelten, wie Räume und Identitäten in Grenzregionen untersucht werden können.« Jos Schnurer, www.socialnet.de, 12.11.2014 Besprochen in: Lëtzebuerger Journal, 08.07.2014, Patrick Welter Lëtzebuerger Journal, 21.07.2014, Christian Block Télécran, 42 (2014), Jean-Louis Scheffen Die Warte, 02.10.2014, Jeff Baden

Mass communications --- Borderlands --- Group identity --- Regionalalism --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Europe --- Boundaries. --- Borderlands. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Border. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Culture. --- Europe. --- Interculturalism. --- Society. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Space. --- Identität; Raum; Grenze; Kultur; Europa; Gesellschaft; Kulturanthropologie; Kultursoziologie; Interkulturalität; Identity; Space; Border; Culture; Europe; Society; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology of Culture; Interculturalism

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In Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, where Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet, state territoriality has taken on new significance in these states' second decade of independence, reshaping landscapes and transforming livelihoods in a densely populated, irrigation-dependent region. Through an innovative ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, Border Work explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Madeleine Reeves follows traders, farmers, water engineers, conflict analysts, and border guards as they negotiate the practical responsibilities and social consequences of producing, policing, and deriving a livelihood across new international borders that are often encountered locally as "chessboards" rather than lines. She shows how the negotiation of state spatiality is bound up with concerns about legitimate rule and legitimate movement, and explores how new attempts to secure the border, materially and militarily, serve to generate new sources of lived insecurity in a context of enduring social and economic inter-dependence. A significant contribution to Central Asian studies, border studies, and the contemporary anthropology of the state, Border Work moves beyond traditional ethnographies of the borderland community to foreground the effortful and intensely political work of producing state space.

Borderlands --- Ethnology --- Fergana Valley --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Farghona Valley --- Farghona Wodisi --- Fargʺona vodiĭsi --- Fergana Basin --- Fergana öröönü --- Fergana Oydungu --- Ferganskai︠a︡ dolina --- Ferganskaya dolina --- Ferghana Valley --- Vodii Farghona --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Boundaries

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Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.

Borderlands. --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Borderlands --- Group identity --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects