SOAN 349: Frontiers & Borders
MW 2:45-4:00, Alumni 108
Colgate University
 Spring 2005 Professor Thomas Hall
 NEW Office:  B3 Alumni, x7042, email:  tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
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 Last Updated 2-8-05
Reading Reports:
How to Cite Readings

There has been some confusion on the proper citations for the reading reports. WHY is important to do this?  There are several reasons:

For further examples see Formats and Bibliographies for Papers, Case Studies, & Theses.

Below I give an example from each of the texts:

For Barfield:

Barfield, Thomas J. 1989. "Ch.3: The Collapse of Central Order: The Rise of Foreign Dynasties."  Pp. 85-130 in The Perilous Frontier.  London:  Blackwell.

*For Barth:

Haaland, Gunnar.1969. "Economic Determinants in Ethnic Processes." Pp. 58-73 in Ethnic Groups And Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference, edited by Frederick Barth. Prospect Heights, IL:  Waveland Press.   

* Note: for the individual chapters you cite the author of that chapter, NOT the editors.

For Donnan & Wilson:

Donnan, Hastings and Thomas M. Wilson. 1999. "Ch 3: Other Approaches to Borders, Nations and States." Pp. 43-62 in Borders:  Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.  Oxford:  Berg.

For Khodarkovsky:

Khodarkovsky, Michael. 2002. "Ch. 3 Taming the “Wilde Steppe,” 1480-1600s." Pp. 76-125 in Russia’s Steppe Frontier:  The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800.  Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press.

**For Slatta:

Slatta, Richard W. 1997. "Ch.2: Indian Equestrian Economies: A Hemispheric Perspective." Pp. 35-51 in Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press (orig. 1994).

**Note: cite the individual chapter, and follow the citation with the original date of publication (which is usually the first note for that chapter at the back of the book).

***For Weber & Rausch:

Webb. Walter Prescott. 1994. "The Great Frontier." Pp. 51-63 in Where Cultures Meet:  Frontiers in Latin American History, edited by David J. Weber and Jane M. Rausch.  Wilmington, DE:  SR Books (orig. 1951).

***Note: cite the individual chapter aurthor, NOT the editors, and follow the citation with the original date of publication (which indicated at the bottom of the first page of the article).

For Wells:

Wells, Peter S. 1999. "Ch. 4: The Roman Conquests." Pp. 64-98 in The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 

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