This article investigates the capacities of children to participate actively in their lives in the Belgian-German borderlands in the time period between World War I and World War II. The article interprets a body of historical sources that has hitherto been left unexplored – namely, borderland child ego documents – with the help of insights from ch...
En croisant les apports des études de genre et des border studies, cet article étudie les conditions de vie des femmes dans les zones rurales à l’extrémité orientale de la frontière turco-syrienne (Haute Jazîra) ainsi que leur capacité d’agentivité, en explorant la mobilité transfrontalière de courte distance. Adoptant une approche décentrée de l’h...
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With a relational view of landscapes and natural environments as continuously &ldquo / in process&rdquo / and formed from the over-layered and interdependent connections between nature and culture, the human and the non-human, this paper considers some recent practices by artists who have worked in the largely rural border region of Northern Englan...
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Himalaya were finally being recognised as the highest mountains on the globe. Simultaneously, they were becoming the insecure northern frontier of the East India Company’s burgeoning Indian empire. This thesis examines the scientific, political and imaginative understandings of the Himalaya that emer...
Published in Historical Archaeology
Archaeologies of military life have made little contribution to the study of Black regulars on the frontier. In part, this is the result of disciplinary boundaries separating scholars who study military history from those who study the African diaspora. Other problems include the nature of military movements and the nature of military record keepin...
This dissertation examines the Texas Mexican musical genre known as conjunto and its concomitant social world. In this work I situate conjunto within a broader context of Mexican American cultural production, Texas Mexican popular music, and the shared histories of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As a social history, the dissertation traces the develo...
La administración de los imperios de ultramar de la Era Moderna dependía en gran medida del mantenimiento de canales de comunicación entre sus diversas partes componentes. El artículo analiza la comunicación política de los portugueses en América, centrándose en espías que trabajaban en la cuenca del río de la Plata entre finales del siglo XVIII y ...
