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Problems and Prospects in North American Borderlands History
Author(s) -
Johnson Benjamin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00302.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , power (physics) , history , political science , psychology , economic history , computer science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
Scholars of North American borders have raised fundamental questions about the relationship between the discipline of history and the nation‐state. Integrating the histories of the U.S.‐Canadian and U.S.‐Mexican borders while paying more attention to the limits of national power will allow them to write accounts of modern state‐making that address questions important to all historians of the modern world.