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

CONTENTS

Introduction. Borders, Places, and Movement

RACHEL B. HERRMANN AND JESSICA CHOPPIN RONEY

Part I. Ways to Think About Borders

Chapter 1. Toward a Prehistory of Territory: Thomas Hobbes, the Maryland Palatinate, and the Colonial Boundary Problem

EDWARD G. GRAY

Chapter 2. Things to Think With: The Use of Borders on a Seventeenth-Century Map of New England

CHRISTIAN J. KOOT

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

ALEX ZUKAS

Chapter 4. Data Maps of Downeast Maine: Missionary Records from the Early Republic Borderlands

JOHN MORTON

Part II. Creating Place

Chapter 5. Depicting and Defining the Plantation in the Early English Caribbean, 1625–1675

PAUL MUSSELWHITE

Chapter 6. When a River Is a Border: Rivalries and Commercial Networks in the Riverine West

KIM M. GRUENWALD

Chapter 7. Military Lines: How the Introduction of Contours Affected Maps and Movement

KAREN RANN

Part III. Movement

Chapter 8. Indian Centers, Colonial Peripheries: Locating the International in Early America

CHARLES W. A. PRIOR

Chapter 9. “Playing the Old Game of Double”: Navigating Creek and Spanish Geopolitics in the Post-Revolutionary Gulf South

CHAD MCCUTCHEN AND JENNIFER MONROE MCCUTCHEN

Chapter 10. Comercio Libre: Revisiting a Concept on Trade and Borders in Creek Homelands

RACHEL B. HERRMANN

Chapter 11. Possibilities and Peril: Exploring the Transnational Experiences of Black People in the Maritimes, 1783–1792

HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD AND SARAH CHUTE

Chapter 12. Amphibious Tales: Villagers and Strangers in a Border-Crossing World

SAMUEL TRUETT

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

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