Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The troubled border	Bhubaneswar Bhattacharyya	Assam boundary disputes with other Northeastern states of India.	OL1051957W
Dzieje granicy mazowiecko-krzyżackiej	Elżbieta Kowalczyk	335 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.	OL12974246W
Altes Zollhaus, Staatsgrenze West	Jochen Schimmang	Jochen Schimmang erzählt vom Leben an sich auflösenden Grenzen, ein Vierteljahrhundert nach dem Ende der Bonner Republik. "Wer an der Grenze steht, kommt schnell mal einen Schritt vom Wege ab und …	OL13308320W
Alexander Nimmo's Inverness survey & journal, 1806	Alexander Nimmo	Alexander Nimmo was Rector of Inverness Academy in 1806 when the Commission for Highland Roads and Bridges employed him to survey the boundary of Inverness-shire with the adjacent counties. During hi…	OL15990921W
The Irish Boundary Commission and its origins, 1886-1925	Paul Murray	In this history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul Murray looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule. It also examines Ulster and British Unionis…	OL16082143W
Shatterzone of Empires	Omer Bartov,Eric D. Weitz	Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending f…	OL16700052W
Utopía para realistas	Rutger Bregman	From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through hi…	OL17686237W
Divided	Tim Marshall	"Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populati…	OL19761327W
Grenzen Ränder Niemandsländer	Jochen Schimmang	Jochen Schimmang schreibt vom Glück, das an den Rändern verborgen liegen kann. Entlang seiner Autobiografie erzählt er davon, was es heißt, ein Kind der britischen Besatzungszone (und nicht eines deu…	OL20350235W
Where China Meets India	Thant Myint-U	Part travelogue, part history, and part investigation of today's fast-moving developments, 'Where China Meets India' is a colourful and compelling exploration of one of the world's least known crossr…	OL20708106W
Los límites entre Venezuela y Colombia	Tomás Polanco Alcántara,Eduardo Hernández Carstens	"Compilation of official documents published by the Venezuela's National Academy of History concerning delimitation of borders with Colombia. Useful source that reproduces bilateral treaties, arbitr…	OL23577455W
El golfo de Venezuela	Rafael Angel Sureda Delgado	"Venezuelan account of historical, diplomatic, and security reasons why Colombia should not possess maritime areas along the Guajira coast between Castilletes and Punta Espada. Biased, but includes a…	OL2381294W
Passport to Enclavia	Vitali Vitaliev	What does it mean to be European? The answer lies in Europe's forgotten enclaves - tiny fragments of one country cut off and completely surrounded by another.	OL2405398W
Über die Ostsee in die Freiheit	Christine Vogt-Müller	229, [1] p. : 22 cm	OL2781793W
Pinocchio was nosey	Roy Doty	Jokes, riddles, puns, and gags accompanied by the author's own drawings.	OL3235750W
National identity and Weimar Germany	T. Hunt Tooley	The border changes following World War I put enormous pressure on both the central German authorities and on social and political relations in the borderlands. Coal-rich Upper Silesia was one such a…	OL3295581W
Changing political boundaries in India	Atar Singh Yadav	Political geography of Central India, present-day Madhya Pradesh.	OL4420447W
Drawing the Line	Edwin Danson	THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE The Mason-Dixon line-surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn-represents one of the greatest and most difficult scientific …	OL5738749W
The St. Clair papers	William Henry Smith,Arthur St. Clair	Arthur St. Clair served as a British Officer in the French and Indian War, rose to the rank of Major General in the Continental Army during the Revolution, was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Confeder…	OL6607057W
News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire	Mark W. Graham	Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to defi…	OL8247069W