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
 OFFICE HOURS:  M 4-5, TU 2-3, W 11-12, & by appointment
 RESERVE READINGS
 Last Updated 1-24-05

NOTE: This list is divided into six parts:

A * means item added since last update.

TEXTS:
Barfield, Thomas J.  1989. The Perilous Frontier.  London:  Blackwell.

Barth, Frederik.  1969.  Ethnic Groups And Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference.  Waveland Press.

Donnan, Hastings and Thomas M. Wilson.  1999.  Borders:  Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.  Oxford:  Berg.  

Khodarkovsky, Michael.  2002.  Russia’s Steppe Frontier:  The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800.  Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press.

Slatta, Richard W.  1997.  Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press.

Weber, David J. and Jane M. Rausch, eds. 1994.  Where Cultures Meet:  Frontiers in Latin American History.  Wilmington, DE:  SR Books

Wells, Peter S. 1999.  The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 

PAPERS ON THE INTERNET
Carlson, Jon D.  2001.  Broadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance.  Journal of World-Systems Research 7:2(Fall):225-263 [E-Journal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].

Cline, Eric.  2000. "'Contested Peripheries' in World Systems Theory:  Megiddo and Jezreel Valley as a Test Case."  Journal of World-Systems Research 6:1:8-17.  [ejournal: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].

Heyman, Josiah McC. 1994. "The Mexico-United States Border in Anthropology: A Critique and Reformulation." Journal of Political Ecology 1 http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/

ITEMS ON BLACKBOARD
Hall, Thomas D.  2005. "Borders, Borderland, and Frontiers, Global." Pp 238-242 in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Vol. 1 edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz.  Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Hall, Thomas D.  2001.  "Using Comparative Frontiers to Explore World-Systems Analysis and International Relations." International Studies Perspectives 2:3(Aug.): 253-269.
also at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Journal_Samples/INSP1528-3577~2~3~056/056.pdf

Hall, Thomas D. 1998. "The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes: Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World." International Political Science Review 19:3(July):251-267.

Plus many maps.

ITEMS ON HARD COPY RESERVE

Batten, Bruce L.  2003.  To the Ends of Japan:  Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions.  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press. 

Bentley, Jerry H.  1993.  Old World Encounters:  Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Di Cosmo, Nicola.  2002.  Ancient China and Its Enemies:  The Rise of the Nomadic Power in East Asian History.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Ganster, Paul and David E. Lorey, eds.  2004.  Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World  Rowman and Littlefield. 

Guy, Donna J. and Thomas E. Sheridan, eds.  1998.  Contested Ground:  Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of Spanish Empire.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press.  
see H-net review:  http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20463925745076

Hall, Thomas D. 2000b.  World-Systems Analysis:  A Small Sample from a Large Universe, 2000.  Pp. 3-27 in A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology, edited by Thomas D. Hall.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield.

Hall, Thomas D. 2000c. Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis, and World-Systems: Rethinking the Theories, 2000.  Pp. 237-270 in A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology edited by Thomas D. Hall.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield.

** 2000a.  A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Press. is on reserve for Soan 337.

Harrell, Stevan, ed. 1995.  Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Kopytoff, Igor.  1987. The African Frontier: the Reproduction of Traditional African Societies.  Bloomington : Indiana University Press.

Sahlins, Peter.  1989.  Boundaries:  The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees.   Berkeley:  University of California Press. 

So, Jenny F. and Emma C. Bunker.  1995.  Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern Frontier.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.

TO GO ON RESERVES
Bohannan, Paul and Fred Plog, eds. 1967. Beyond the Frontier: Social Process and Cultural Change.  Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.

Dunaway, Wilma A.  1996.  The First American Frontier:  Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press. 

Lattimore, Owen.  1962.  Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928-58.  London:  Oxford University Press.

McNeill, William H.  1964.  Europe’s Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. 

Riley, Glenda.  1988.  The Female Frontier:  A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains.  Lawrence:  University of Kansas Press. 

Sunderland, Willard.  2004.  Taming the Wild Field:  Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

Items that you might find useful, BUT NOT on reserve.
Bartlett, Robert and McKay, Angus, eds.  1989.  Medieval Frontier Societies.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Beckwith, Christopher I.  1987.  The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press. 

Donnan, Hastings and Thomas M. Wilson, eds.  1994.  Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives On Frontiers. 

Dyson, Stephen L.  1985.  The Creation of the Roman Frontier.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press. 

Eccles, W. J.  1974.  The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press.  (Original [1969] New York:  Holt Rinehart and Winston).

Elton, Hugh.  1996.  Frontiers of the Roman Empire.  Bloomington:  University of Indiana Press.  

Hennessy, Alistair.  1978.  The Frontier in Latin American History.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press.

Hurtado, Albert L.  1988.  Indian Survival on the California Frontier.  New Haven:  Yale University Press. 

Lamar, Howard R. and Thompson, Leonard, eds.  1981.  The Frontier in History:  North America and Southern Africa Compared.  New Haven:  Yale University Press. 

Lattimore, Owen.  1951.  Inner Asian Frontiers, 2nd ed.  Boston: Beacon Press.  (Originally [1940].  New York: American Geographical Society).

Martínez, Oscar J. 1988.  Troublesome Border .  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press. F786 .M42 1988 _____, ed.  1996.  U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical And ContemporaryPerspectives.  Wilmington, DE:  Scholarly Resources Press.  
_____.  1994.  Border People:  Life and Society in the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press. 

O'Dowd, Liam and Thomas M. Wilson, eds.  1996.  Borders, Nations, And States : Frontiers Of Sovereignty In The New Europe.  

Power, Daniel and Naomi  Standen, eds.  1999.  Frontiers in Question : Eurasian Borderlands, 700-1700.  New York: St. Martin's Press. 

Usner, Daniel H., Jr.  1992.  Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1983. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 

Webb, Walter Prescott. 1951 [1979].  The Great Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press.   

Weber, David J.  1982.  The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press. 
_____.  1992.  The Spanish Frontier in North America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press. 

West, Elliott.  1998.  The Contested Plains:  Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado.  Lawrence, KS:  University Press of Kansas. 

Whittaker, C. R. 1994.  Frontiers of the Roman Empire:  A Social and Economic Study.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University.

Wyman, Walker D. and Clifton B. Kroeber, eds.  1965.  The Frontier in Perspective. Madison: University of  Wisconsin Press. 

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