Tag: Borderlands

Free Download Margaret E. Dorsey, "Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational Marketing"
English | 2006 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0292706901 | PDF | 1,0 mb
A uniquely Tejano version of the old-fashioned political barbeque, the traditional South Texas pachanga allowed politicians to connect with voters in a relaxed setting where all could enjoy live music and abundant food and drink along with political speeches and dealmaking. Today’s pachanga still combines politics, music, and votes-along with a powerful new element. Corporate sponsorships have transformed the pachanga into a major marketing event, replete with celebrity performers and product giveaways, which can be recorded and broadcast on TV or radio to vastly increase the reach of the political-and the commercial-messages.

Free Download Koen Wellens, "Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China "
English | ISBN: 0295990694 | 2010 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551

Free Download Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy, "European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine "
English | ISBN: 1641890304 | 2019 | 192 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book focuses on a key zone within the eastern frontier of medieval Europe: Podillya in modern-day Ukraine. Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy offers a definitive guide to the region, which experienced great cultural and religious diversity, together with a continuous influx of newcomers. This is where Christian farmers met Muslim nomads. This is where German town residents and Polish nobles met urban Armenians and Tatars serving in the military. The territory emerged in historical narrative when Lithuanian and Polish rulers divided the legacy of the Ruthenian Kingdom and pushed Tatars back to the steppe. For one hundred and fifty years, this territory passed through many dominions – a western part of the Golden Horde, a principality under the Koriatovych brothers, a turf partitioned among the Polish kingdom and the duchy of Lithuania. Podillya offers a unique opportunity to see interaction of so many peoples, principalities, and cultures – the eastern frontier of Europe at its most dynamic.

Free Download Omer Bartov, "Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past"
English | ISBN: 0300259964 | 2022 | 392 pages | PDF | 49 MB
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II

Free Download Marie de Rugy, University of Strasbourg, "Imperial Borderlands Maps and Territory-Building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885-1914)"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 900445621X | PDF | pages: 342 | 11.8 mb
Based on colonial archives and indigenous maps, this book delivers a connected history of imperial margins in Southeast Asia by comparing the British and French geographical policies and practices at the end of the 19th century.

Free Download Debra Lattanzi Shutika, "Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico"
English | ISBN: 0520269594 | 2011 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Since the 1990s, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores the issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. Beyond the Borderlands also completes the circle of migration by following migrant families as they return to their hometown in Mexico, providing an illuminating perspective of the tenuous lives of Mexicans residing in, but not fully part of, two worlds.

Free Download Stefanos Gimatzidis, Sila Mangalaglu-Votruba, Magda Pieniazek, "Archaeology Across Frontiers and Borderlands: Fragmentation and Connectivity in the North Aegean and the Central Balkans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3700180292 | PDF | pages: 455 | 151.7 mb
The objective of this volume is a theoretical debate on the archaeology at the crossroads of the Balkans, the Aegean and Anatolia and its interrelation with social and political life in this historically turbulent region. Modern political borders still divide European archaeology and intercept research. This is particularly evident in southeastern Europe, where archaeological interaction among neighbouring countries such as Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, the FYR of Macedonia and Albania is practically inactive. Reception of the past within the local perspectives of modern nation states and changing identities are some of our focal points: Can breaks or continuities in the material culture be perceived as evidence for ethnic (dis-)continuities, migrations, ethnogeneses, etc. and what is the socio-political background of such approaches? What is the potential of material culture towards the definition of modern and past identities? Interaction among different societies and cultures as well as the exchange of goods and ideas are another topic of this book. The area encompassing the north Aegean and the Balkans was, during the later prehistoric and early historic periods, the showplace of fascinating cultural entanglements. Domestic, cultic and public architecture, artefact groups and burial rites have always been employed in the archaeological process of defining identities. However, these identities were not static but rather underwent constant transformations. The question addressed is: How did people and objects interact and how did objects and ideas change their function and meaning in time and space? Colleagues representing different scholarly traditions and cultural backgrounds, working in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, took part in this debate, and a total of 19 papers are now presented in this book.

Free Download Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, "A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization: Rethinking Mental Health"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442247754, 0765709317 | PDF | pages: 150 | 1.0 mb
Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans are a combination of diverse populations that differ on a range of factors including length of time in the country, migration background, ethnicity, geographical location, socio-economic status, and so on. The reader will find perspectives of those of us who live in the borderlands-that is, those of us whom Gloria Anzaldúa identified as Mestizas, who inhabit the intersticios, the spaces in between souls, minds, identities, and geographies. This book assists new generations of Latino/as and of those involved in Latino Culture and Latin America in understanding how the colonization of the Americas is still tied to current issues of migration from the South to the North and how mental health practices have been created and maintained from the wound of coloniality. It offers a rich and alternative foundation for approaching trauma, identity, and resilience through the integration of a decolonization paradigm, borderlands theory, and social justice approaches in couple and family therapy.

Free Download Bogdan G. Popescu, "Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier "
English | ISBN: 1009365169 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 83 MB
What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic and social development? This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire’s southern border against the threat of the Ottoman Empire and which lasted until the 1880s. The book outlines the conditions under which this extractive institution affected development, showing how locals were forced to work as soldiers and exposed to rigid communal property rights, an inflexible labor market, and discrimination when it came to the provision of public infrastructure. While the formal institutions set up during the military colony disappeared, their legacy can be traced in political attitudes and social norms even today with the violence and abuses exercised by the imperial government transformed into distrust in public authorities, limited political involvement, and low social capital.

Free Download Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 By Daniel R. Brower
1997 | 339 Pages | ISBN: 0253332745 | PDF | 8 MB
Investigates the impact of the Russian Empire on its non-Russian peoples of the southern and eastern borderlands from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This title includes the study of ethnic and religious differences that emerged from the Russian encounter with peoples whose cultures differed profoundly from their own.