A Fluid Frontier
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Untaming The Frontier In Anthropology Archaeology And History
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Author : Bradley J. Parker
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Untaming The Frontier In Anthropology Archaeology And History written by Bradley J. Parker and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with Social Science categories.
Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.
A Fluid Frontier
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Author : Karolyn Smardz Frost
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-15
A Fluid Frontier written by Karolyn Smardz Frost and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.
Bioarchaeology Of Frontiers And Borderlands
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Author : Cristina I. Tica
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-08-21
Bioarchaeology Of Frontiers And Borderlands written by Cristina I. Tica and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-21 with Social Science categories.
Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence. Examining a wide range of borderland settings, essays in this volume discuss the mobility of people in Roman Egypt and investigate patterns of genetic difference in Iron Age Italy. They show how social and cultural interactions helped buffer the stressful physical environment of eleventh-century Iceland and describe bioarchaeological evidence of traumatic injuries indicating tension across regional borders in the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity. As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today’s society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
The Archaeology Of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
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Author : A. Asa Eger
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Archaeology Of Medieval Islamic Frontiers written by A. Asa Eger and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Social Science categories.
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation. Contributors explore different conceptualizations of “border,” the importance of which previously went unrecognized, examining frontiers in regions including the Magreb, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Nubia, and the Caucasus through a combination of archaeological and documentary evidence. Chapters highlight the significance of these respective regions to the emergence of new sociopolitical, cultural, and economic practices within the Islamic world. These studies successfully overcome the dichotomy of civilization’s center and peripheries in academic discourse by presenting the actual dynamics of identity formation and the definition, both spatial and cultural, of boundaries. The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers is a rare combination of a new reading of written evidence with results from archaeological studies that will modify established opinions on the character of the Islamic frontiers and stimulate similar studies for other regions. The book will be relevant to medieval Islamic studies as well as to research in the medieval world in general. Contributors: Karim Alizadeh, Jana Eger, Kathryn J. Franklin, Renata Holod, Tarek Kahlaoui, Anthony J. Lauricella, Ian Randall, Giovanni R. Ruffini, Tasha Vorderstrasse
Frontiers Of The Roman Empire
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Author : Hugh Elton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Frontiers Of The Roman Empire written by Hugh Elton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading. Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr Elton, was rather a fuzzy set of interlocking zones - political, military, judicial and financial. After discussion of frontier theory and types of frontier, the author analyses the acquisition of an empire and the ways in which it was ruled. He addresses the vexed question of how to define the edges of provinces, and covers the relationship with allied kingdoms. Regional variation and different rates of change are seen as significant - as is illustrated by Civilis' revolt on the Rhine in AD 69. He uses another case-study - Dura-Europos - to exemplify the role of the army on the frontier, especially its relations with the population on both sides of the border. The central importance of trade is highlighted by special consideration of Palmyra.
Understanding Ocean Ridges A New Frontier For Science And Development
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Author : Philip Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Understanding Ocean Ridges A New Frontier For Science And Development written by Philip Weaver and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Science categories.
Frontiers Of Land And Water Governance In Urban Areas
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Author : Thomas Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Frontiers Of Land And Water Governance In Urban Areas written by Thomas Hartmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Nature categories.
A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living. Sustainable governance of land and water is one of the major challenges of our times. Managing retention areas for floods and droughts, designing resilient urban waterfronts, implementing floating homes, or managing wastewater in shrinking cities are just a few examples where spatial planning steps into the governance arena of water management and vice versa. However, water management and spatial planning pursue different modes of governance, and therefore the frontiers between the two disciplines require developing approaches for setting up governance schemes for sustainable cities of the future. What are the particularities of the governance of land and water? What is the role of regional and local spatial planning? What institutional barriers may arise? This book focuses on questions such as these, and covers groundwater governance, water supply and wastewater treatment, urban riverscapes, urban flooding, flood risk management, and concepts of resilience. The project resulted from a Summer School by the German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) organized by the editors at Utrecht University in 2013. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.
Colonial Frontiers
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Author : Lynette Russell
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001-08-10
Colonial Frontiers written by Lynette Russell and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-10 with History categories.
This wide-ranging collection explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and America. the contributors illuminate the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups.
The Black Baptist Experience In Canada
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Author : Gordon L. Heath
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2025-04-08
The Black Baptist Experience In Canada written by Gordon L. Heath and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-08 with History categories.
This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as Washington Christian, Jennie Johnson, David George, William White, William Troy, and William M. Mitchell.
My Name Is Not Tom
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Author : Susan Cooke Soderberg
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2025-04-02
My Name Is Not Tom written by Susan Cooke Soderberg and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This book is a biography of Josiah Henson, the man catapulted into fame after Harriet Beecher Stowe noted that events in his life influenced her fictional character, Uncle Tom. From the plantation fields of Maryland, to the Georgetown Market, to the plantations of Kentucky, escaping to freedom in Canada, and being introduced to the Queen in England, Josiah Henson led a fascinating life. Born enslaved, and having endured a brutal attack as a young man that would maim him for life, Henson eventually escaped and became a respected minister and famed secular leader. While previous biographies have relied heavily on Henson's four dictated autobiographies, "My Name Is Not Tom" uses novel primary source research to fill in the untold parts this extraordinary individual's life while examining his views of slavery and morality, which changed substantially over the course of his life"--