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oapen-20.500.12657-415522020-09-02T00:43:11Z On the Frontiers of History Morris-Suzuki, Tessa history Asia borders Tartary East Asia boundaries cartography indigenous experience bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL1 Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis. 2020-09-01T11:40:21Z 2020-09-01T11:40:21Z 2020 book ONIX_20200901_9781760463694_9 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41552 eng application/pdf n/a 9781760463694.pdf https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/frontiers-history ANU Press 10.22459/OFH.2020 10.22459/OFH.2020 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 open access
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Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.
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