Inlands : empires, contested interiors, and the connection of the world
Inlands
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Omfang | X, 380 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : inlands and empires in modern world history / Robert S.G. Fletcher & Alec Zuercher Reichardt -- French imperial ambitions and the American interior in the era of the Chickasaw Wars / Alec Zuercher Reichardt -- Trading China into a new era : the inland spaces of the Huizhou merchants, 1700-1850 / Anne Gerritsen -- Opening the interior? : markets and the incomplete inland empire of rail on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, c. 1840-1900 / Aparajita Mukhopadhyay -- Capitalist connectivity, labour isolation : British-managed estancias in inland Tierra del Fuego, 1897-1944 / Nicolás Gómez Baeza -- Broken Hill : the problem of water for an inland mining empire / Katie Holmes and Lilian Pearce -- The Great Dismal Swamp's inland "city of refuge" during the early age of revolutions / Marcus P. Nevius -- Russia's inland empire : the limits of sovereignty on the Steppe / Alexander Morrison -- Imperial futures on the Zambezi : contesting sovereignty in the watery badlands of Caprivi Zipfel, c. 1890-1990 / David M. Anderson -- Upriver and over the mountains : indigenous homelands and imperial invasions in Northwestern North America / Patrick Lozar -- A 'live laboratory' of non-capitalist development : positioning Mongolia in the informal Soviet empire, 1919-1940 / Ivan Sablin and Amgalan Zhamsoev -- The desert locust and its enemies : science, sovereignty, and statecraft in inland Arabia and East Africa / Robert S.G. Fletcher -- The tell-tale heart : Midwestern history through an imperial lens / Kristin Hoganson.. - "From the Americas to Zomia, interior spaces and inland regions have presented new challenges and opportunities for the writing of U.S. and global history. In working toward "a new historiography of large areas"-from the world's oceans and deserts to its forests, grasslands and mountains-historians, geographers, anthropologists, and political scientists have recovered the pasts of neglected inland spaces. Inlands interrogates these regions' contributions to wider polities, networks, and historical processes that far exceed their own accepted boundaries. With case studies centered on locations around today's United States, and in Africa, Eurasia, Australasia, and South America, Inlands focuses on the broader part these regions have played in the development, projection, and contestation of state power-particularly of empires-from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Together, Inlands argues for the significant role of inlands in the history of global connection and disconnection: an important revision to much work privileging the sea and the coasts, and a contribution to our understanding of the unevenness and the limits of contemporary globalization. Inlands interrogates those features of inland regions that have made them of wider national, imperial, and global historical importance. In the process, it builds upon two decades of scholarship in which historians have challenged assumptions about "cores" and "peripheries." Examining the changing relationships between the diverse peoples of inland regions has forced us to rethink how we measure the boundaries and extent of these regions, while historians map shifting perceptions of the 'inland' between actors and across time. Empires and other globalizing forces have often approached and defined interior spaces from the outside looking in, or across. Yet, for others, these same regions and zones were long-standing centers. In flipping the perspective-from the inland outward-Inlands explores how interior spaces have shaped the global"--
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| ISBN | 9780231211567. - 9780231211574
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