Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800

Name: Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800Author(s): Jaime Moreno Tejada, Bradley Tatar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472470560, 978-1472470560\nSynopsis\nFrontiers are \""wild.\"" The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around borders?\n\nThis book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history of social development in the borderlands of two continents. Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions, drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the place-making projects of nation s.