Inlands

List of Illustrations Introduction: Inlands and Empires in Modern World History, by Robert S. G. Fletcher and Alec Zuercher Reichardt Part I. Routes and Resources 1. French Imperial Ambitions and the American Interior in the Era of the Chickasaw Wars, by Alec Zuercher Reichardt 2. Trading China into a New Era: The Inland Spaces of the Huizhou Merchants, 1700–1850, by Anne Gerritsen 3. Opening the Interior? Markets and the Incomplete Inland Empire of Rail on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, c. 1840–1900, by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay 4. Capitalist Connectivity, Labor Isolation: British-Managed Estancias in Inland Tierra del Fuego, 1897–1944, by Nicolás Gómez Baeza 5. Broken Hill: The Problem of Water for an Inland Mining Empire, by Katie Holmes and Lilian Pearce Part II. Realms and Resistance 6. The Great Dismal Swamp’s Inland “City of Refuge” During the Early Age of Revolutions, by Marcus P. Nevius 7. Russia’s Inland Empire: The Limits of Sovereignty on the Steppe, by Alexander Morrison 8. Imperial Futures on the Zambezi: Contesting Sovereignty in the Watery Badlands of Caprivi Zipfel, c. 1890–1990, by David M. Anderson 9. Upriver and Over the Mountains: Indigenous Homelands and Imperial Invasions in Northwestern North America, by Patrick Lozar 10. A “Live Laboratory” of Noncapitalist Development: Positioning Mongolia in the Informal Soviet Empire, 1919–1940, by Ivan Sablin and Amgalan Zhamsoev 11. The Desert Locust and Its Enemies: Science, Sovereignty, and Statecraft in Inland Arabia and East Africa, by Robert S. G. Fletcher 12. The Tell-Tale Heart: Midwestern History Through an Imperial Lens, by Kristin Hoganson Contributors Index