"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 …
"This book offers a one-volume geopolitical history of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 until 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain in effect accepted American m…
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted Amer…
"Unauthorized immigrants in the southeastern United States encounter communities unused to their new Latino neighbors and quick to call law enforcement. The precariousness of this way of life leads immigrant communities and allies to organize and demonstrate to secure legal righ…
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a 700-mile-long fence: the U.S.-Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today--but too often its complexities are viewed through the myopic lens of illeg…
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a 700-mile-long fence: the U.S.-Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today--but too often its complexities are viewed through the myopic lens of illeg…
"This book follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation ... an emergent global order of social injustice ... reache…
"This book follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation--an emergent global order of social injustice--reaches far …
Introduction: Sexual Frontiers, Racialized Bodies, and Sexual Capital -- The Oikopolitic: The Father of All, Brokering of the Californiana Body, and the "Natural Order of Things" in Alta California -- Circuits of Brown, Black, and Red: The Politics of Racialized Gender and Sexua…
Main description: In diesem Band werden erstmals zwei europäische Großregionen vergleichend in den Blick genommen, so dass neue Sichtweisen auf Grenzen und ihre spezifischen Ausprägungen eröffnet werden. Die paarweise Anordnung der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gewährleis…
Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert (Hrsg.) Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich Der Osten und der Westen des mittelalterlichen Lateineuropa Europa im Mittelalter, Bd. 7 In diesem Band werden erstmals zwei europäische Großregionen vergleichend in den Blick genommen, so d…