The Fringes of Empires

Recent Scholarship on Colonial Frontiers and Borderlands in Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID9340344
AuthorsFlavia Prado (0000-0002-5942-9982, Roosevelt University, corresponding author), Fabricio Prado (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume10
Issue4
Pages318-333
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00837.x
OpenAlexW1606584561
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited29

This article examines recent historical literature on colonial frontiers and borderlands in Latin America. The article explores definitions and subtleties related to the translation of the terms frontier and borderlands from Spanish/Portuguese into English. Moreover, special attention is paid the scholarship on African and Indigenous slavery in frontiers, the interaction between indigenous groups and colonists, the social importance of mestizos and go betweens, and the relationship between social groups and the environment. Most of the works reviewed present interdisciplinary approaches, including but not limited to ethnohistory, environmental studies, anthropology, sociology, cartography, humans geography, Atlantic World history

Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Native American studies · Political science · Portuguese · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America · Ecology

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub