At the Edge of Empire examines the history of the Cossack frontier settlements in the North Caucasus during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The specific focus is the Terek Cossacks, frontier settlers along the Terek river who became servants of the Russian state, warrio…
This book examines the way Romans thought about their boundaries. In an attempt to keep their boundaries secure and inviolable, the Romans sacralized and even deified them. In the stories Romans told about their boundaries, themes can be identified that connect some of the funda…
Medieval frontiers: concepts and practices
In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. 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 draw…
"Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects has historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instan…
Ethnographies of grey zones in Eastern Europe: relations, borders and invisibilities
by Frederiksen, Martin Demant, Exploring the Grey Zones: Governance, Conflict and (Ind.)security in Eastern Europe (Conference), Denmark), Knudsen, Ida Harboe
fromAnthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
"Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920 ... ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition ..…
Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness. In Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and Violations Salman Akhtar and the other contributors demonstrate how boundaries, by d…
Crossing borders, dissolving boundaries
by Viljoen, Hein, Dimitriu, Ileana
fromCross cultures
