Overview
Broadening the idea of “borderlands” beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America. Borderland Narratives extends the concept to the Ohio Valley and other North American regions not typically seen as borderlands, far from the northern Spanish colonial frontier. It also shows how the term has been used in recent years to describe unstable spaces where people, cultures, and viewpoints collide. A timely assessment of the dynamic field of borderland studies, this volume argues that the interpretive model of borders is essential to understanding the history of the colonial United States.
Full Product Details
Author: Andrew K. Frank ,
A. Glenn Crothers
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9780813054957
ISBN 10: 0813054958
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This important collection of essays reveals new insights and asks potentially fruitful questions about borderland spaces between 1500 and 1850. . . Essential. --Choice
This important collection of essays reveals new insights and asks potentially fruitful questions about borderland spaces between 1500 and 1850. . . Essential. --Choice An important collection. . . . Borderland Narratives will continue to push historians to reevaluate and question our assumptions about the crossroads of life in #vastearlyamerica. --H-Net Reviews An impressive volume that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of borderlands scholarship. --Journal of Southern History Frank and Crothers argue in favor of a more expansive definition of 'borderlands.' . . . The analytics of boundaries, whether physical, geographical, ethnic, legal, temporal, or gender-based, can definitely benefit from the techniques employed by these contributors. --H-AmIndian
Author Information
Andrew K. Frank is the Allen Morris Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author or editor of several books including Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier. A. Glenn Crothers, associate professor of history at the University of Louisville, is the author of Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865.
