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Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction. Borders, Places, and Movement
  7. Part I. Ways to Think About Borders
    1. Chapter 1. Toward a Prehistory of Territory: Thomas Hobbes, the Maryland Palatinate, and the Colonial Boundary Problem
    2. Chapter 2. Things to Think With: The Use of Borders on a Seventeenth-Century Map of New England
    3. Chapter 3. Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in Guillaume Delisle’s and Herman Moll’s Early Eighteenth-Century Maps of North America
    4. Chapter 4. Data Maps of Downeast Maine: Missionary Records from the Early Republic Borderlands
  8. Part II. Creating Place
    1. Chapter 5. Depicting and Defining the Plantation in the Early English Caribbean, 1625–1675
    2. Chapter 6. When a River Is a Border: Rivalries and Commercial Networks in the Riverine West
    3. Chapter 7. Military Lines: How the Introduction of Contours Affected Maps and Movement
  9. Part III. Movement
    1. Chapter 8. Indian Centers, Colonial Peripheries: Locating the International in Early America
    2. Chapter 9. “Playing the Old Game of Double”: Navigating Creek and Spanish Geopolitics in the Post-Revolutionary Gulf South
    3. Chapter 10. Comercio Libre: Revisiting a Concept on Trade and Borders in Creek Homelands
    4. Chapter 11. Possibilities and Peril: Exploring the Transnational Experiences of Black People in the Maritimes, 1783–1792
    5. Chapter 12. Amphibious Tales: Villagers and Strangers in a Border-Crossing World
  10. List of Contributors
  11. Index
  12. Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In addition to thanking our authors for their hard work on this volume, the co-editors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers who commented on this book, and to the network of friends, colleagues, and interlocutors who gave life to this volume: S. Max Edelson, Travis Glasson, Edward Gray, Patrick Griffin, Pekka Hämäläinen, April Hatfield, Lawrence Hatter, Christian Koot, Andrew Lipman, Kris Lane, Michael McDonnell, Harvey Neptune, Joshua Piker, Nancy Shoemaker, Alec Reichardt, Daniel K. Richter, Patrick Spero, Samuel Truett, Molly Warsh, Lissa Wadewitz, Mark Williams, and Laurie Wood. Our thanks to Ryan Langton for his careful work creating our index. We are grateful to Bob Lockhart and all the people at UPenn Press who helped make this volume a reality.

Jess would like to thank her family, Adam, Lexi, and Caitlin, who inspire her questions and enable her research. She thanks Rachel for her drive to get this volume done and Marc for the time he got up at dawn to escort her to the Bristol train station even though she said she knew the way. (She did not.) Rachel would like to thank her other half, Marc, for his constant support, and in this specific instance for supporting her unanticipated turn to tariffs. She depends on Jess to write some of the only emails she looks forward to reading, and appreciates Adam, Lexi, Caitlin, and the cats for opening their home to her in Philly. Jess and Rachel thank the McNeil Center fellowship committee that gave them the extraordinary good fortune to be fellows at the same time. Finally, they give thanks for one another: for the many years’ project of producing this volume, friendship and knitwear, the excellent food, the many laughs, occasional cries, thought-provoking conversations, and (always) the unwavering support.

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