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

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

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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

Claiming Land,
Claiming Water

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Borders and the People Who Crossed Them
in the Early Modern Atlantic

EDITED BY
Rachel B. Herrmann and
Jessica Choppin Roney

PENN

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

PHILADELPHIA

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