"'Capital mediators' argues that mining engineers were the critical intermediaries responsible for integrating the transnational hard-rock mining districts of North America into the economic system of the United States. Working as labor managers and technical experts, mining eng…
State borders and multispecies mobility regimes : endangered, invasive, exotic -- Banana rats at Guantánamo Bay : precarious life and interspecies security -- Animal sovereignties and the wolves of Isle Royale -- Nonhuman personhood and the new rights of nature -- From the quest…
"Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of …
Paths toward a hearing -- Amaculo Manihamba: a genre considered -- Walking, singing, pointing, Usuthu Gorge -- Cartographic encounters: settling the Southeast African border -- New routes in and out, Eziphosheni -- Rain is only one aspect of water -- Dwelling in a futurized past…
"Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief.…
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 Loui…
"Åshild Kolås and Monika Thowsen have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities - involving Tibetan language, literature, visual arts, museums, performing arts, festivals, and religion. Their study is based on fieldwork and interviews conducted…
"China's Last Imperial Frontier examines imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last Qing decades. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftains and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region of Kham, seekin…
"This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth century Mexican American history that examines Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war resulting in the loss of half its territory. Responding to past interp…
This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.
"This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth century Mexican American history that examines Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war resulting in the loss of half its territory. Responding to past interp…
