The Frontier Effect

The Frontier Effect
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ISBN-10 : 1501747533
ISBN-13 : 9781501747533
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Synopsis The Frontier Effect by : Teo Ballvé

"This book disputes the commonly held view that Colombia's armed conflict is a result of state absence or failure, providing broader lessons about the real drivers of political violence in war-torn areas"--

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0816524521
ISBN-13 : 9780816524525
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History by : Bradley J. Parker

Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributorsÑhistorians, anthropologists, and archaeologistsÑpresent numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of EgyptÕs Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or Òcreolization,Ó and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in todayÕs world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This bookÕs interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.

Wondrous Times on the Frontier

Wondrous Times on the Frontier
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Publisher : august house
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 0874836751
ISBN-13 : 9780874836752
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Wondrous Times on the Frontier by : Dee Brown

Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

The frontier in American history

The frontier in American history
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Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Total Pages : 390
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Synopsis The frontier in American history by : Frederick Jackson Turner

The Frontier in American Culture

The Frontier in American Culture
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9780520915329
ISBN-13 : 0520915321
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier in American Culture by : Richard White

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.

The Frontier Complex

The Frontier Complex
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781108840590
ISBN-13 : 1108840590
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier Complex by : Kyle J. Gardner

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

Women of the Frontier

Women of the Frontier
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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781613740002
ISBN-13 : 161374000X
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Women of the Frontier by : Brandon Marie Miller

An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.

To the Frontier

To the Frontier
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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0060291176
ISBN-13 : 9780060291174
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis To the Frontier by : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.

Goddess on the Frontier

Goddess on the Frontier
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781503600454
ISBN-13 : 1503600459
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Synopsis Goddess on the Frontier by : Megan Bryson

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity? Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.

The Frontier in British India

The Frontier in British India
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781108840194
ISBN-13 : 1108840191
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier in British India by : Thomas Simpson

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.