Beneath the Lines

Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century

AvJacobo García-Álvarez,Paloma Puente-Lozano

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-05
Mått:178 x 254 x 10 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Geography and Geosciences
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030969066

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Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Drawing the lines, knowing the borders. An overview of recent scholarship on boundary-making and modern regimes of territorialization.- Part I. Boundary Treaties and Joint Commissions: Theoretical Foundations and Praxis on the Ground.- 2. Modern State Sovereignty as Geometric Purification of Territory. Delimitation Theories and Practices in the 1864 Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Treaty.- 3. Delimitation of the Spanish-Portuguese Border and the Controversy over La Contienda.- 4.From a Line on a Map to Realities on the Ground. The French-German Joint Boundary Commission at Work (1871-1877).- 5. Mexican Geographer Engineers and the Demarcation of Mexico's Borders.- Part II. Contesting the Naturalness of Borders. Cartographic Practices, Geographical Knowledge and Territorial Issues.- 6. Borders on Paper, Borders on the Ground. Boundary Commissions Under the Treaty of Madrid and Their Role in the Reinvention of the Rio de la Plata Frontier (1752-1759).- 7. Rights of Use vs. Natural Boundary: Demarcation of the Iraty Forest Massif (Western Pyrenees, 17th-19th Centuries) 8. A Water Borderline Adrift Between France and Spain. The Bidasoa and the Bay of Higuer at the End of the 19th Century.- 9. Demarcation of the Border of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1913–1931): Chronicle of Failure.- Part III. Concluding Essay.- 10. Borders at the Global Turn.