... of powerful mercantile and political groups in these networks. Africans Colônia do Sacramento commerce Iberian Union Riode Janeiro borderlands hides interaction zone Río de Plata estuary silver slave trade transimperial networks transimperial trade Alto Peru Upper Peru Asiento Buenos Aires...

... Santa Tereza fort Santo Domingo Soriano Tordesillas Treaty borderlands casais pulpero wheat Cação Cazón João Gonçalves Cunha Neves Manuel da Jesuits João Mamede Mesquita Pedro Pereira Perdigão Leonardo Silva Ana Joaquina da transimperial trade French River Plate Siete Pueblos Missions...

... revolution monarchism commerce contraband trade borderlands In response to the crisis of legitimacy triggered by Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808, different reactions and political projects emerged in the Spanish American colonies. Historians of Latin America have emphasized...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the interplay of land reform and migratory labor in the making of borderlands between the years of 1850 and 1954, focusing on Baja California. It argues that the Mexican borderlands emerged from efforts to keep labor moving...

...This chapter examines HIV as a spatialized disease, identified with communities at the borderlands along China's multiethnic southern frontier during the late-socialist period. It shows how political subjectivity and everyday practices of surveillance and implementation of public health policies...

...This chapter takes a look at the features that make negotiating multiple identities and life on the borderlands difficult. It shows that life on the margins can be difficult due to the lack of road maps or frameworks for constructing transnational identities. The chapter also reveals that notions...

... “Forget the Alamo.” This is followed by a discussion of U.S. filmmakers and their efforts to place the figure of the border or borderlands as a central element in a historical revisionist project. It notes that hundreds of films on the Mexico-U.S. border have been made in Hollywood since the early days...

...Over the span of history, notions of both biological and fictive kinship have had varying degrees of influence. In this chapter on the history of the family as it evolved in both Europe and the Spanish and Mexican borderlands in the US Southwest, Gutiérrez demonstrates how intense emotional...

...South China is one of the many “borderlands” bearing the imprint of global capitalism. It is a literal borderland of national boundaries, straddling a colony of Britain and a Chinese province, as well as a metaphorical borderland of social systems and categories. Like other regions within Asian...

... in these borderlands. This chapter explores how nations are made through the management of biological nature, and how containing microbes on the border is a vital act of national security. Today in the borderlands, contemporary cases of food security and swine flu entangle with histories of immigration control...

...Meeting Roberto: citizenship through naturalization; moving in search for a livelihood; danger and ontological security; troubled family relations; illness and adversity; the borderlands; the face of the other; the “deportation regime”; conversion; religion and migration; schooling and social...

... interactions to expand their influence over the border areas with Luso-America and over territories that was previously under the administration of Buenos Aires. borderlands Bourbon Reforms Buenos Aires Montevideo Río de Plata estuary Consulado de Comercio de Buenos Aires Río de la Plata viceroyalty...

... reflecting the emergence of Montevideo elites as imperial actors within the Rio de la Plata estuary. Banda Norte North Bank Uruguay written accounts borderlands Buenos Aires Colônia do Sacramento contraband trade customs geography landscape Montevideo port British bureaucrats French interaction...

... in the late colonial period. Africa Atlantic World Bahia Cipriano de Melo Manuel Colônia do Sacramento Lisbon networks Riode Janeiro transimperial networks Britain Iberian empires polycentric monarchies transimperial interaction borderlands England hides Montevideo Pombaline Reforms Potosí...

... as the dynamics of political subjectivity. The second part examines subjectivity at the borderlands or margins of states and polities, and the third addresses the subjective stakes of postcolonial disorder through the lenses of psychiatric models and “other” or altered mental states. reformation art artists...