Transnational frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800 / edited by Jaime Moreno Tejada and Bradley Tatar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moreno Tejada, Jaime, editor.

Tatar, Bradley, editor.

Series:

Border regions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries.

Historical geography.

Asia--Historical geography.

Asia.

Latin America--Historical geography.

Latin America.

Geopolitics--Asia.

Geopolitics.

Geopolitics--Latin America.

Asia--Boundaries.

Latin America--Boundaries.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: distance/modern transnational frontiers / Jaime Moreno Tejada

Globalization and changing conceptions of Colombia's llanos frontier since 1980 / Jane Rausch

Frontierization and defrontierization : reconceptualizing frontier frames / Greg Acciaioli and Alka Sabharwal

Nation and race in the historical juncture of the Haitian revolution / Dannelle Gutarra

Expanding the Japanese empire to the Manchurian frontier : immigration and ethnicity in the South Manchuria railway towns / Rosalia Avila-Tàpies

Spatiality, jurisdiction, and sovereignty in early Latin American approaches to the law of the sea / Daniel S. Margolies

State building and problematic geo-political spaces in South Asia : the Himalayas and the extradition treaty of 1855 / Alastair McClure

Transnational communities in the Yunnan borderlands in the 19th and early 20th century : re-thinking the yunnan borderlands and frontier history writing in China / Diana Zhidan Duan

The other sides of the frontier : indigenous agency in the construction of borders in southwest Amazonia / Louise Cardoso de Mello

Walking with the gods : the Himalayas as (dis)enchanted landscape / Christopher A. Howard

Constructing and celebrating a national object of desire : the Amazonian oriente frontier and Ecuadorian society, 1900-1946 / William Fischer

Frontier Bali : local scales and levels of global processes / Graeme MacRae

An ambivalent nation : Ch'orti' in eastern Guatemala and western Honduras / Brent Metz

Nation-state building and transnationalism : Central American connected histories / Luis Roniger

Infrastructuring the Mekong : construction of the national border and riverbank development in Vientiane capital, Lao PDR / Miki Namba

The frontier of belonging : repatriation and citizenship of the overseas Chinese in colonial Malaya / Low Choo Chin

James Tigner and the Okinawan emigration program to Latin America / Pedro Iacobelli D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472470560

1472470567

OCLC:

951915792