On the Frontiers of History
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily gua...
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| description | Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-324212025-07-30T10:21:16Z On the Frontiers of History Morris-Suzuki, Tessa history Asia borders Tartary East Asia boundaries cartography indigenous experience thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis. 2021-02-10T13:58:54Z 2021-02-10T13:58:54Z 2020-09-01T11:40:21Z 2020 book ONIX_20200901_9781760463694_9 OCN: 1182556433 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41552 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32421 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41552/1/9781760463694.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41552/1/9781760463694.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41552/1/9781760463694.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/OFH.2020 10.22459/OFH.2020 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 open access |
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