In the last 25 years or so, global and transnational history have grown into an incontrovertible research agenda, investigating how all sorts of circulations, entanglements, and connections shaped modern history. At the same time, this research agenda has been criticized for underestimating the study of historically important formations such as the nation-state, Europe, or world systems—which persist despite a cavalcade of connections piercing their boundaries. This special issue explores how a focus on borders and frontiers can combine the study of connections with that of long standing units of historical analysis.
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Borders and Frontiers in Global and Transnational HistoryEdited by Erik van der Vleuten / Torsten Feys
B. de Ridder: The Chambre Mi-Partie as an Experiment in Border Arbitration (1648–1675)
R. Declercq: Karakul Sheep Farming in (German) South West Africa (1903–1939)
T. Feys: European Shipping Companies between US Border Building and Evasion 1860s–1920s
M. Davis: Technology as the New Frontier: Unilever and the Rise of Becel Margarine
Forum: Ulrich Herberts “Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert“Mit Beiträgen von Lutz Raphael, Anselm Döring-Manteuffel, Morten Reitmayer / Christian Marx, Silke Mende und Fernando Esposito
Article:Rhys Jones: 1816 and the Resumption of “Ordinary History”