TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris-Suzuki, Tessa
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.22459/OFH.2020
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200901_9781760463694_9
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41552
ID  - OAPEN ID: 46979
KW  - history
KW  - Asia
KW  - borders
KW  - Tartary
KW  - East Asia
KW  - boundaries
KW  - cartography
KW  - indigenous experience
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41552/1/9781760463694.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32421
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2020
TI  - On the Frontiers of History : Rethinking East Asian Borders
ER  - 
