Kyle J Gardner

The Frontier Complex

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Produktbeschreibung

Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781108814256
• ISBN-10: 1108814255
• Artikelnr.: 63296919

Autorenporträt

Kyle J. Gardner is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh
2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds
3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners
4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats
5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes
6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information
7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State
Epilogue.