Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West - Couverture rigide

McManus, Sheila

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1623499992 ISBN 13 : 9781623499990

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2022

Synopsis

How do borderlands work? How do they maintain their distinctive features in the face of concerted efforts on the part of nation-states to make each of their borderlines into a harsh demarcation? According to most contemporary political discourse and popular perceptions, the two borders of the United States West have little in common but understanding their borderlands' similarities can help us understand some of the most powerful forces shaping human history and the world around us; understanding their historiographies gives us insight into borderlands historians' unique methodology.

Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West brings together leading scholarship in a focused, synthetic survey of five themes in the history of the northern and southern borderlands: the borderlands as aboriginal homelands and the persistence of Indigenous territories and ways of being; imperial and national efforts to create binary notions of territory and identity; regulatory efforts aimed at stopping or limiting the movement of certain people across their borders; the weakening of those efforts by cross-border movement of capital, goods, and people, usually aided by state power, and the complex, binary-refusing identities that persist in borderlands communities.

Historian Sheila McManus uses these themes to highlight the commonalities between the two borderlands' histories and provides an overview and a starting point for experts and newcomers in the field of North American borderlands history to address new questions. By conceptualizing both borders together and focusing particular attention on race and gender as well as empire and nation, Both Sides Now provides a unique methodology in North American scholarship that emphasizes the connections between these borderlands and others around the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

SHEILA McMANUS is professor of history at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. They are the author of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands and Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the US West and coeditor of One Step Over the Line: Towards a History of Women in the North American West and The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1623499992
• ISBN 13: 9781623499990
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible