Lessons from Comparing the Two Southwests

Southwest China and Northwest New Spain/Southwest US

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ID12433765
AutoresThomas D Hall (autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Páginas24-56
Data de publicação2013-03-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X
EditoraUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jwsr.2013.519
OpenAlexW2216092852
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas36

I compare and contrast two "southwestern"" frontiers: the southwestern United States. long northeast New Spain (short hand: New Mexico) and southwest China (short hand: Yunnan). Both have been. and even today remain. frontier zones. In the 2]51 century both are also important borderlands for two of the most important players in the modern world-system. the United States and China. They share a historical orientation to the areas outside of the two states into which they were ultimately incorporated. Both brought a great deal of new practices and ideas into the incorporating states. They serve to give deep historical backgrounds which put discussions of contemporary globalization in perspective. This comparison also makes clear that the concepts of nation-state and precise borders are typically modern and that setting precise borders is a continuing project. even while borderlands remain. like the frontiers that preceded them. frontier zones. These comparisons may also yield insights into world-system expansion and incorporation

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