Empire and Frontiers

The Series Empire and Frontiers focuses on empire building between the 18th and the mid-20th century in different global contexts from the vantage point of frontiers. The production of frontiers entailed a range of transformations of spaces, relations, systems and practices. These transformations were marked in significant moments of encounters at multiple scales, shaped by wider global factors and dynamics. The interconnections of knowledge, capital, society and violence were also significant in such processes of frontier making. Drawing on a variety of archives and sources and using new frames of analysis and innovative approaches, the Series publishes monographs and edited volumes that study a range of historical developments and experiences in the frontiers of empire. Providing fresh perspectives on the historical constitution of frontier spaces, books published under the Series not only highlight how frontiers were central to the history of modern empire building, but also how they are crucial to understand global histories of space making.