Studies in Frontier History
Author | : Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | : London ; New York, Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | : London ; New York, Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bradley J. Parker |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 081653411X |
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.
Author | : Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253212177 |
Most history concentrates on the broad sweep of events, battles and political decisions, economic advance or decline, landmark issues and events, and the people who lived and made these events tend to be lost in the big picture. Cayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Josiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others. Focusing his account on these and other representative individuals, Cayton retells the story of Indiana's settlement in a human and compelling narrative which makes the experience of exploration and settlement real and exciting. Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.
Author | : Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John F. Richards |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2003-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520230750 |
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Author | : Gilbert Joseph Garraghan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Studies on the growth and settlement of areas in the Old Northwest, including Chicago, Vincennes, Ind. and the Missouri Valley. Focuses on the history of the Catholic Church in these areas and biographies of monk and missionaries.
Author | : Wilma A. Dunaway |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861170 |
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Author | : Andrew C. Hess |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226330303 |
The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.
Author | : Stacey L. Smith |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469607697 |
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Author | : Nancy Reagin |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609387902 |
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