... sovereignty Moluccas Rio de la Plata Myanmar imperial boundaries indio ...

... The illegal movement of people in bondage across imperial boundaries has received scant attention, perhaps because so few records detail the activities of French, Flemish, Genoese, Portuguese, and Spanish merchants, slave raiders, and corsairs operating behind the scenes. Changes in exploration...

... boundary between what became British Tanganyika and Belgian Ruanda-Urundi. The chapter reveals the haphazard delineation of this border and the inability or unwillingness of colonial officials to take into account local conditions. Imperial debates around border making signaled the birth of a new type...

..., keeping Cuzco tied to Lima while linking Potosí to Buenos Aires. The great uprisings of the 1780s extended across the new boundary, encompassing the heartland in conflict. When imperial struggles and uncertainties spread after 1808, the powerful hesitated due to fear of new popular risings—until outside...

...Nations, Empires, Disciplines<subtitle>Thinking beyond the Boundaries</subtitle> ...

..., nationalism, modernism, and imperialism. However, avoiding the urgency of increases in human numbers since 1950 can slide into something akin to the way some Christians avoid the urgency of climate change because it touches too closely on the marrow of their faith. How to address the urgency is the key...

... Aires. The great uprisings of the 1780s extended across the new boundary, encompassing the heartland in conflict. When imperial struggles and uncertainties spread after 1808, the powerful hesitated due to fear of new popular risings—until outside armies led by Bolivar in the 1820s forced liberations...

... Actively seeking to rethink and transcend the geographic boundaries and periodization schemes that a nation-state-driven historical account solidifies, historians of the Atlantic world have developed tools to escape this methodological prison. Instead of thinking of the nation-state...

... of an international boundary between what became British Tanganyika and Belgian Ruanda-Urundi. The chapter reveals the haphazard delineation of this border and the inability or unwillingness of colonial officials to take into account local conditions. Imperial debates around border making signaled the birth of a new...

... that follows, the communities presented their request for a nationwide inspection and demarcation of property, which would enable them to protect their own territorial boundaries. For this, they drew on earlier legislation. They invoked an 1874 liberal law for the inspection of lands, which originally had been...