Inlands

Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World

Robert S. G. Fletcher, Alec Zuercher Reichardt

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Columbia University Press
31 December 2024

Historiography; General & world history

Series: Global America

Conventional narratives of empires and globalization focus on oceans and coasts, supposing that global connections are seaborne and that historical change proceeds inward from port cities into continental expanses. This book offers a new perspective, examining key inland areas around the world to show how interior regions have shaped global history.

Inlands brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts to explore the modern histories of inland regions across North and South America, Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia, from the American heartland to the Yangzi valley, the Great Dismal Swamp to the Arabian Desert. Together, they argue that interior regions provide a fresh vantage point from which to rethink the history of global connection and disconnection. Each chapter reconsiders national, regional, or imperial histories from an inland perspective, demonstrating how such places have spurred global change.

Contributors reveal the critical role inlands and their Indigenous inhabitants have played in the development, projection, and contestation of state power, showing how some interiors became essential to empire even as others developed in resistance to it. By examining the struggle to integrate inland regions into wider networks of exchange, this book also sheds light on the unevenness and the limits of contemporary globalization. A new global history of interior spaces, Inlands presents a bold challenge to dominant understandings of the making of today's connected world.

Edited by: Robert S. G. Fletcher, Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780231211567
ISBN 10: 0231211562
Series: Global America
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 31 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert S. G. Fletcher is professor of history and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri. His books include British Imperialism and “The Tribal Question”: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919–1936 (2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (2019). Alec Zuercher Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.

Reviews for Inlands: Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World

Exploring twelve interior regions across the world from the American Midwest to Southeast China, Inlands shows that interior regions as much as coastal zones helped to shape and re-shape empires, trade and geopolitics. The authors have given us a highly original perspective that turns global history inside out. -- John Darwin, author of <i>Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930</i> The contributors of Inlands offer readers variations on traditional global narratives that tend to sweep across oceans and coastlines. Through compelling arguments, this timely compilation reshapes beliefs of inlands as isolated and astutely reveals how the complex contours of the peoples, events, and places found in continental interiors are anchors for consequential connections made throughout global histories. -- Elaine Marie Nelson, University of Kansas Including essays from an impressive roster of scholars Inlands a welcome and needed addition to imperial studies. By focusing on inland areas, rather than the oceans and coasts that have dominated recent historiography, this important collection will help to further challenge long-standing interpretations of what drives the creation of empires. * Andrew C. Isenberg, University of Kansas *