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Drawing the Lines, Knowing the Borders: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on Boundary-Making and Modern Regimes of Territorialization

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This chapter offers a wide overview of the recent scholarship on modern boundary-making in different languages and cultural contexts. It aims to bring together the main outcomes of empirical research and the conceptual issues and theoretical debates having arisen both in the context of the so-called spatial and global turns (e.g. new spatially oriented forms of research in global or transnational history) and in border studies over the last decades. The chapter first elaborates on this wider intellectual background; then highlights the specific contribution made in the book (thematic, methodological and historiographical); and, lastly, introduces the chief insights of each chapter of the book.

This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (Research Project CSO2015-65301-P, MINECO/FEDER), as well as by the Spanish State Research Agency (Research Project PID2020-114088GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).

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    Just as an example, the following works in different languages might be referred to regarding specific areas. For different European cases, see: Stoklosa and Besier (2014); for Italy: Salvaticci (2005), Meriggi (2016), Di Fiore and Mariggi (2013); for Switzerland: Schroeter (2007); for France: Sahlins (1989, 1998), Sermet (1983), Arvizu (1992, 1997, 2001), Desplat (2002), Capvevila (2009), Catalá et al. (2011), Puyo and García-Álvarez (2016), García-Álvarez and Puyo (2019); for the Portuguese–Spanish border: Garcia (1996), Dias (2009), Godinho (2011), Herzog (2015), García-Álvarez and Puente-Lozano (2015a, 2015b, 2017a), García-Álvarez (2019); for Germany: Demandt (1990), Dunlop (2015), Polak-Springer (2015), Kulczycki (2016); for Central and Eastern Europe: Bjork (2008), Evans (2006), Bartov and Weitz (2013), Murdock (2011); for Northern maritime borders: Morieux (2016); for the French Flanders: Baycroft (2004); for Eurasian imperial borderlands: Rieber (2014), Barret (1999).

    For colonial cases, see: for Africa, Blais (2011, 2014), African Union Border Programme (2014), Lefebvre (2011), Sandouno (2014); for the Middle East: Ates (2013); for New Zealand: Byrnes (2001).

    For Latin America, see: for Mexico, Rebert (2001) and Weber (1992); for Brazil, Langfur (2006); for the southwestern border of the United States, Mandrini (2006), Mandrini and Paz (2003). For North America, see: Johnson and Graybill (2010), Hämäläinen and Johnson (2012); for the southern border with the Spanish Empire in particular: Adelman and Aron (1999), Aron (2006), Blackhawk (2006), Guy and Sheridan (1998), de la Teja and Frank (2005) and Brooks (2002).

    For Asia, see: Schendel (2005), Misra (2011), Breyfogle (2005).

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Puente-Lozano, P., García-Álvarez, J. (2022). Drawing the Lines, Knowing the Borders: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on Boundary-Making and Modern Regimes of Territorialization. In: García-Álvarez, J., Puente-Lozano, P. (eds) Beneath the Lines. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96904-2_1

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