Fletcher / Reichardt Inlands

Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55897-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Global America

This book examines key inland areas around the world to show how interior regions have shaped global history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Robert S. G.

Reichardt, Alec Zuercher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Inlands and Empires in Modern World History, by Robert S. G. Fletcher and Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Part I. Routes and Resources
1. French Imperial Ambitions and the American Interior in the Era of the Chickasaw Wars, by Alec Zuercher Reichardt
2. Trading China into a New Era: The Inland Spaces of the Huizhou Merchants, 1700–1850, by Anne Gerritsen
3. Opening the Interior? Markets and the Incomplete Inland Empire of Rail on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, c. 1840–1900, by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
4. Capitalist Connectivity, Labor Isolation: British-Managed Estancias in Inland Tierra del Fuego, 1897–1944, by Nicolás Gómez Baeza
5. Broken Hill: The Problem of Water for an Inland Mining Empire, by Katie Holmes and Lilian Pearce
Part II. Realms and Resistance
6. The Great Dismal Swamp’s Inland “City of Refuge” During the Early Age of Revolutions, by Marcus P. Nevius
7. Russia’s Inland Empire: The Limits of Sovereignty on the Steppe, by Alexander Morrison
8. Imperial Futures on the Zambezi: Contesting Sovereignty in the Watery Badlands of Caprivi Zipfel, c. 1890–1990, by David M. Anderson
9. Upriver and Over the Mountains: Indigenous Homelands and Imperial Invasions in Northwestern North America, by Patrick Lozar
10. A “Live Laboratory” of Noncapitalist Development: Positioning Mongolia in the Informal Soviet Empire, 1919–1940, by Ivan Sablin and Amgalan Zhamsoev
11. The Desert Locust and Its Enemies: Science, Sovereignty, and Statecraft in Inland Arabia and East Africa, by Robert S. G. Fletcher
12. The Tell-Tale Heart: Midwestern History Through an Imperial Lens, by Kristin Hoganson
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert S. G. Fletcher is professor of history and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri. His books include British Imperialism and “The Tribal Question”: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919–1936 (2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (2019).

Alec Zuercher Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.