Readings
Brooks, James F. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780807853825.
Perdue, Peter C. “Boundaries, Maps, and Movement: Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian Empires in Early Modern Central Eurasia.” The International History Review 20 (June 1998): 263-286.
Questions
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Frederick Jackson Turner wrote about the “frontier,” but James Brooks and Peter Perdue write about “borderlands.” What is the difference between the two terms?
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What types of sources do Brooks and Perdue employ to study borderlands? To what extent do “borderlands” exist in people’s minds, and to what extent do they correspond to material reality?
Partial Bibliography
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780521424608.
Dudziak, Mary L., and Leti Volpp. Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780801884146.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780300059175.
Weber, David J., and Jane M. Rausch. Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History. SR Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780842024785.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 1987. ISBN: 9781879960121.
Truett, Samuel. Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the US-Mexico Borderlands. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780300143317.
Sahlins, Peter. Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees. University of California Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780520074156.
———. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Cornell University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780801488399.
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Translated by Siân Reynolds. 2 volumes. University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520203082, 9780520203303.
d’Arcy, Paul. People of the Sea: Environment, Identity and History in Oceania. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780824832971.
Kearney, Milo. The Indian Ocean in World History. Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415312783.
Barfield, Thomas J. The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757. Blackwell, 1992. ISBN: 9781557863249.
Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780804746847.
Perdue, Peter. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780674057432.
