• Asimov, M.S., and C.E. Bosworth, ed. History of civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, The age of achievement: AD 750 to the end of the fifteenth century, Part One, The historical and economic setting (Delhi: UNESCO, 1997).
• Barfield, Thomas, The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China, 221 B.C. to A.D. 1757 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
• Beckwith, Christopher I., Empires of the Silk Road: a history of central Eurasia from the bronze age to the present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009).
• Christian, David, A history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol empire (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).
• Hansen, Valerie, The open empire: a history of China to 1600 (New York: Norton, 2000).
• Mote, Frederick, Imperial China 900-1800 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).
• Sinor, Denis, ed. Cambridge history of Inner Asia (Taipei: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• Soucek, Svat, A history of Inner Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

On the Treaty of Shanyuan and its preservation (several articles are available on Blackboard)

• Ang, Melvin Thlick-Len, 'Sung-Liao diplomacy in eleventh- and twelfth-century China: a study of the social and political determinants of foreign policy' (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1983).
• Lamouroux, Christian, 'Geography and politics: the Song-Liao border dispute of 1074/75', China and her neighbours: borders, visions of the other, foreign policy 10th to 19th century, ed. Sabine Dabringhaus and Roderich Ptak (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997), pp. 1-28.
• Lau Nap-yin, 'Waging war for peace? The peace accord between the Song and the Liao in AD 1005', Warfare in Chinese history, ed. Hans van de Ven (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), pp. 180-221.
• Lorge, Peter, 'War and the creation of the Northern Song' (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1996).
• Lorge, Peter, ‘The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao border’, Battlefronts real and imagined: war, border and identity in the Chinese Middle Period, ed. Don J. Wyatt (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 59-74.
• Tao Jing-shen, 'Yü Ching and Sung policies toward Liao and Hsia, 1042-44', Journal of Asian History, 6:2 (1972), 114-22.
• Tietze, Klaus-Peter, 'The Liao-Sung border conflict of 1074-1076', Studia Sino-Mongolica: Festschrift für Herbert Franke, ed. Wolfgang Bauer (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1979), pp. 127-51.
• Wright, David C., 'Parity, pedigree, and peace: routine Sung diplomatic missives to the Liao', Journal of Sung-Yüan Studies, 26 (1996), 55-85.
• Wright, David C., 'The Sung-Kitan war of AD 1004-1005 and the Treaty of Shan-yüan', Journal of Asian History 32:1 (1998), 3-48.

General reading list: Border Encounters

Since frontiers and boundaries can be found from earliest times, and among other animals as well as among humans, this bibliography, despite its length, gives only the tip of the iceberg of potential reading. There are numerous journal articles in this list; they are strongly commended to you as a concise way to the heart of an issue and an argument. I have deliberately tried to provide reading dealing with examples from all over the world and all periods of history and prehistory so that you have plenty of choice for illustrating your own arguments. Remember that no matter which question you answer, you must include case studies from three different world regions and at least two different periods. Also remember that no matter which question you choose, there is likely to be relevant material from all three lectures and from all three of the main sections of reading below.

Drawing the line

Theory (that is, ideas that are supposed to have general application; do your case studies support or challenge the general applicability of the theory?)

• De Atley, Suzanne P. and Findlow, Frank J., Exploring the limits: frontiers and boundaries in prehistory (Oxford, 1984).
• Donnan, Hastings, and Thomas M. Wilson, Borders: frontiers of identity, nation and state (Oxford: Berg, 1999).
• Febvre, L., A geographical introduction to history, trans. E.G. Mountford and J.H. Paxton (London, 1932).
• Febvre, Lucien, 'Frontière: the word and the concept', A new kind of history: from the writings of Lucien Febvre, trans. K. Folca, ed. Peter Burke (London, 1973), pp. 208-18.
• Green, Stanton W. and Perlman, Stephen M., The archaeology of frontiers and boundaries (Orlando, 1985).
• Jones, Stephen B., 'Boundary concepts in the setting of place and time', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 49 (1959), 241-55.
• Kaegi, W., 'The frontier: barrier or bridge?', 17th international Byzantine congress, major papers (New York, 1986), 279-305.
• Kristof, Ladis K. D., 'The nature of frontiers and boundaries', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 49 (1959), 269-82.
• Lattimore, O., Inner Asian frontiers of China (New York, 1951).
• Prescott, J. R. V., Political frontiers and boundaries (London: Unwin, 1987).
• Prescott, J.R.V., Boundaries and frontiers (London, 1978).

b) peoples and ideas

• Anderson, Benedict, Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, revised edn. (London: Verso, 1991).
• Armstrong, John A., Nations before nationalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1982).
• Barth, F., ed., Ethnic groups and boundaries: the social organisation of cultural difference (Bergen-Oslo, 1969).
• Fairbank, John K., ed., The Chinese world order (Cambridge, Mass., 1968).
• Foucher, P., L'invention des frontières (Paris, 1986).
• Gellner, Ernest, Nations and nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983).
• Gould, Peter & Rodney White, Mental maps, second edn. (Boston, 1986).
• Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, ed. The invention of tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
• Kedourie, Elie, Nationalism (London, 1985).

Geography and maps

• Bonner, Michael, 'The naming of the frontier: 'Awâsim, Thughûr, and the Arab geographers', BSOAS, 57:1 (1994), 17-21.
• Brook, Timothy, 'Mapping knowledge in the sixteenth century: the gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji', East Asian Library Journal, 7:2 (1994), 5-32.
• Davis, S.L., and J.R.V. Prescott, Aboriginal frontiers and boundaries in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992).
• De Biaggi, E., and M. Droulers, 'The island of Brazil: the power of a cartographic myth', Mappe monde, 69:1 (2003), 40-3.
• De Robert, P., and A.-E. Laques, '"The map of our land": Implications of maps as seen by the Kayapo Indians (Amazon region of Brazil)', Mappe monde, 69:1 (2003), 1-6.
• Forêt, Philippe, Mapping Chengde: the Qing landscape enterprise (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2000).
• Harley, J.B., The new nature of maps: essays in the history of cartography (Baltimore, 2001).
• Henry, M., 'Protecting a national military body: territorialising New Zealand's border spaces, November 1915', War and Society, 27:1 (2008), 23-38.
• Jones, S.B., Boundary-making: a handbook for statesmen, treaty editors and boundary commissioners (Washington, DC, 1945).
• Kivelson, Valerie, Cartographies of tsardom: the land and its meaning in seventeenth-century Russia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
• Knight, David B., 'Identity and territory: geographical perspectives on nationalism and regionalism', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 72 (1982), 514-31.
• Lewis, Martin, and Kären Wigen, The myth of continents: a critique of metageography (Berkeley: University of California, 1997).
• March, Andrew L., The idea of China: myth and theory in geographic thought (New York, 1974).
• Martin, William G., and Michael O. West, ed. Out of one, many Africas: reconstructing the study and meaning of Africa (Urbana, 1999).
• Slowe, Peter, Geography and political power (London, 1990).
• Smith, Richard J., 'Mapping China's world: cultural cartography in late imperial times', Landscape, culture and power in Chinese society, ed. Yeh Wen-hsin (Berkeley: University of California, 1998), pp. 52-109.
• Trocki, Carl, 'Borders and the mapping of the Malay world', Proceedings: Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 9-12th March 2000, San Diego, California (2000), http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000092/
• Zandvliet, Kees, 'The contribution of cartography to the creation of a Dutch colony and a Chinese state in Taiwan', Cartographica, 35:3-4 (1998), 123-35.
• Zandvliet, Kees, Mapping for money: Maps, plans, and topographic paintings and their role in Dutch overseas expansion during the 16th and 17th centuries (Amsterdam, 1999).

Myths and traditions of identity

• Davis, R.H.C., The Normans and their myth (London, 1976).
• Dobrovitz, M., 'The Turco-Mongolian tradition of common origin and the historiography in fifteenth century Central Asia', AOASH, 57:3 (1994), 269-77.
• Dow, Tsung-i, 'The Confucian concept of a nation and its historical practice', Asian Profile, 10:4 (1982), 347-61.
• Hathaway, Jane, A tale of two factions: myth, memory, and identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (Albany: SUNY, 2003).
• Imber, C., 'Ottoman dynastic myths', Turcica, 19 (1987), 7-27.
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 'The adventure of the frontier in the twentieth century', The frontier in American culture, ed. J.R. Grossman (Berkeley: University of California, 1994), pp. 67-102.
• Loud, G.A., 'The Gens Normannorum – myth or reality?', Anglo-Norman Studies, 4 (1981), 104-16.
• Luo Zhewen & Zhao Luo, The Great Wall of China in history and legend, trans. Zeng Xianwu and Wang Zengfen (Beijing, 1986).
• Rossabi, Morris, 'Chinese myths about national minorities: Khubilai Khan, a case study', Central and Inner Asian Studies, 1 (1987), 47-81.

Cultural, ethnic and national identities

• Braudel, Fernand, The identity of France, vol. 1: history and environment, trans. (London, 1989).
• Bulag, Uradyn E., The Mongols at China's edge: history and the politics of national unity (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
• Evans, R.J.W., 'Frontiers and national identities in Central Europe', International History Review, 14 (1992), 480-502.
• Gruen, E.S., Culture and national identity in Republican Rome (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1992).
• Howell, David, L., 'Ainu ethnicity and the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state', P & P, 142 (1994), 69-93.
• Smith, A.D., The ethnic origins of nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).
• Vaughan, Olufemi, 'Chieftaincy politics and communal identity in western Nigeria, 1893–1951', Journal of African History, 44:2 (2003), 283-302. [CUP]
• Watson, William, Cultural frontiers in ancient East Asia (Edinburgh, 1971).

Constructing identities: Us and Them

• Campbell, David, National deconstruction: violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).
• Dikötter, Frank, ed., The construction of racial identities in China and Japan: Historical and contemporary perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 1997).
• Faure, David, 'Becoming Cantonese, the Ming Dynasty transition', Unity and diversity: local culture and identities in China, ed. T.T. Liu and D. Faure (Hong Kong, 1996), pp. 37-50.
• Gelber, Harry, Nations out of empires: European nationalism and the transformation of Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
• Harrison, Henrietta, The making of the republican citizen: political ceremonies and symbols in China, 1911-1929 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Isaac, Benjamin, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
• Porter, Brian, When nationalism began to hate: imagining modern politics in nineteenth-century Poland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
• Tägil, Sven, ed. Regions in upheaval: ethnic conflict and political mobilisation (Stockholm, 1984).
• Wang Gungwu, ed., Nation building: five Southeast Asian histories (Singapore: ISEAS, 2006).
• Wimmer, Andreas, ‘Elementary strategies of ethnic boundary making’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31:6 (2008), 1025-55.
• Zhao Suisheng, A nation-state by construction: dynamics of modern Chinese nationalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Case studies (for further case studies see items listed under Expansion and Borderlands)

a) Americas

• Glaister, Dan, 'America's Minutemen build their own fence against Mexican migrants', Guardian, 2 Jan 2007, p. 21.
• McManus, Sheila, The line which separates: race, gender, and the making of the Alberta-Montana border (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska, 2005).
• Reséndez, Andrés, Changing national identities at the frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• Riordan, Liam, Many identities, one nation: the revolution and its legacy in the mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2007). 
• Truett, Samuel, 'Neighbors by nature: rethinking region, nation, and environmental history in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands', Environmental History, 2:2 (1997), 160-78.
• Zolberg, Aristide R., A nation by design: immigration policy in the fashioning of America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).

b) Asia

• Chang, Michael G., A court on horseback: imperial touring and the construction of Qing rule, 1680-1785 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007).
• Gommans, Jos J.L., 'The silent frontier of South Asia, c. A.D. 1100-1800', JWH, 9:1 (1998), 1-23.
• Holt, Frank Lee, Alexander the Great and Bactria: the formation of a Greek frontier in central Asia (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988).
• Jagchid, S. and Van Simmons, J., Peace, war and trade along the Great Wall (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
• Khan, Yasmin, The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). 
• Lattimore, O., 'Origins of the Great Wall of China: a frontier concept in theory and practice', Studies in frontier history: collected papers 1928-58 (London, 1962), pp. 97-118.
• Lev, Daniel S., and Ruth McVey, ed., Making Indonesia: essays on modern Indonesia in honor of George McT. Kahin (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1996).
• Lin, Hsiao-ting, Tibet and Nationalist China's frontier: intrigues and ethnopolitics, 1928-1949 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2007).
• Pan Yihong, 'The Sino-Tibetan treaties in the Tang dynasty', T'oung Pao, 78 (1992), 116-61.
• Ptak, R. and S. Dabringhaus, eds., China and her neighbors: Borders, visions of the other, foreign policy 10th to 19th century (Wiesbaden, 1997).
• Rossabi, Morris, ed., China among equals: the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th to 14th centuries (Berkeley: University of California, 1983).
• Sinor, Denis, 'Diplomatic practices in medieval Inner Asia', Studies in medieval Inner Asia (London: Variorum, 1997), XVI.
• Standen, Naomi, Unbounded loyalty: frontier crossings in Liao China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2007).
• Tietze, K., 'The Liao Song border conflict of 1074-1076', Studia Sino-Mongolica: Festschrift für Herbert Franke, ed. W. Bauer (Wiesbaden, 1979), 127-51.
• Waldron, A., The Great Wall of China: from history to myth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• Walker, Richard Louis, The multi-state system of ancient China (Westport, Conn., 1953).
• Wilson, Constance Maralyn, and Lucien M. Hanks, The Burma-Thailand frontier over sixteen decades: three descriptive documents (Columbus, 1985).
• Wright, David C., 'Parity, pedigree and peace: routine Sung diplomatic missives to the Liao', Journal of Sung-Yüan Studies, 26 (1996), 55-85.

c) Europe

• Bell, David A., The cult of the nation in France: inventing nationalism, 1680-1800 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001).
• Duffy, P.M., 'The nature of the medieval frontier in Ireland', Studia Hibernica, 22-3 (1982-3), 21-38.
• Ellis, S.G., Tudor frontiers and noble power: the making of the British state (Oxford, 1995).
• Elukin, Jonathan, Living together, living apart: rethinking Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). 
• Fine, John V.A., Jr., When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the medieval and early-modern periods (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2006).
• Ganshof, F.L., 'The significance of the treaty of Verdun (843)', The Carolingians and the Frankish monarchy: studies in Carolingian history, trans. J. Sondheimer (London, 1971), pp. 289-302.
• Hay, D., 'England, Scotland and Europe: The problem of the frontier', TRHS, 5th ser., 25 (1975), 77-91.
• Hayes, D.M., 'From boundaries blurred to boundaries defined: clerical emphasis on the limits of sacred space in the later middle ages', Holy ground: theoretical issues relating to the landscape and material culture of ritual space, ed. Alex Smith and Alison Brookes (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2001), pp. 85-90.
• Khodarkovsky, M., 'From frontier to empire: the concept of the frontier in Russia, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries', Russian History, 19 (1992), 115-28.
• King, Jeremy, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: a local history of Bohemian politics, 1848-1948 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• Noble, T.F.X., 'Louis the Pious and the frontiers of the Frankish realm', Charlemagne's heir: the reign of Louis the Pious, ed. P. Godman and R. Collins (Oxford, 1990), 333-47.
• Pohl, Wood, et al, ed., The transformation of frontiers: from late antiquity to the Carolingians (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001).
• Power, Daniel J., 'What did the frontier of Angevin Normandy comprise?' Anglo-Norman Studies 17: proceedings of the Battle conference 1994, ed. C. Harper-Bill (Woodbridge, 1995), 181-201.
• Ross, Corey, 'Before the Wall: East Germans, communist authority, and the mass exodus to the west', The Historical Journal, 45:2 (2002), 459-480.
• Sahlins, Peter, 'Natural frontiers revisited: France's boundaries since the seventeenth century', AHR, 95 (1990), 1423-51.
• Shepard, Todd, The invention of decolonization: the Algerian War and the remaking of France (New York: Cornell University Press, 2008).

d) Mediterranean

• Dangler, Jean, Making difference in medieval and early modern Iberia (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2005).
• Dyson, Stephen L., The creation of the Roman frontier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
• Glick, T.H., Islamic and Christian Spain in the early Middle Ages: comparative perspectives on social and cultural formation (Princeton, 1979).
• Mathisen, Ralph W. and Hagith Sivan, Shifting frontiers in late antiquity: papers from the First Interdisciplinary Conference on Late Antiquity, University of Kansas, 1995 (London, 1996).
• Parker, S. Thomas, Romans and Saracens: a history of the Arabian frontier (Philadelphia, 1986).
• Smith, Julia, 'The fines imperii', New Cambridge medieval history.
• Whittaker, C.R., 'Frontiers', The High Empire, AD 70-192, The Cambridge Ancient History XI, 2nd ed., ed. A.K. Bowman, P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Whittaker, C.R., Frontiers of the Roman empire: a social and economic study (Baltimore, 1994).

Expansion and empire

Ancient and classical

• Cherry, David, Frontier and society in Roman North Africa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
• Isaac, B. The limits of empire, revised edn (Oxford, 1992).
• Luttwak, E., The grand strategy of the Roman Empire (Baltimore, 1976).

Medieval

• Allsen, Thomas T., Mongol imperialism: the policies of the Grand Qan Mängke in China, Russia, and the Islamic lands, 1251-1259 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
• Bartlett, R., The making of Europe: conquest, colonisation and cultural change 950-1350 (London, 1993).
• Castro, Daniel, Another face of empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, indigenous rights, and ecclesiastical imperialism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).
• Coulson, C.L.H., 'Fortress-policy in Capetian tradition and Angevin practice: aspects of the conquest of Normandy by Philip Augustus', Anglo-Norman Studies, 6 (1983), 13-38.
• Davies, R.R., Domination and conquest: the experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1100-1300 (Cambridge, 1990).
• Ellis, S.G., and Barber, S., eds, Conquest and union: fashioning a British state (London, 1995).
• Lewis, A.R., 'The closing of the medieval frontier, 1250-1350', Speculum, 33 (1958), 475-83.
• Mackay, A., Spain in the Middle Ages: from frontier to empire, 1000-1500 (London, 1977).
• Mostern, Ruth, 'Apprehending the realm: territoriality and political power in Song China (960-1276 CE)' (PhD diss., UC Berkeley, 2003).
• Pan, Yihong, Son of heaven and heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and its neighbors (Bellingham, Wash.: Western Washington University, 1997).
• Phillips, J.R.S., The medieval expansion of Europe, second ed. (Oxford, 1998).
• Stalls, Clay, Possessing the land: Aragon's expansion into Islam's Ebro frontier under Alfonso the Battler (1104-1134) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995).
• Von Glahn, Richard, The country of streams and grottoes: expansion, settlement, and the civilizing of the Sichuan frontier in Song times (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Early modern

• Coleman, Michael C., American Indians, the Irish, and government schooling: a comparative study (Lincoln, Nb: University of Nebraska, 2007).
• Douwes, Dick, The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000).
• Giersch, C. Patterson, Asian borderlands: the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).
• Graubart, Karen B., With our labor and sweat: indigenous women and the formation of colonial society in Peru, 1550-1700 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
• Grenier, John, The first way of war: American war making on the frontier, 1607-1814 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• Grove, Richard H., Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860 (Cambridge, 1995).
• Guelke, Leonard, and Robert Shell, 'Landscape and conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1789', Agriculture, resources exploitation, and environmental change, ed. Helen Wheatley (Aldershot, 1997).
• Hostetler, Laura, The Qing colonial enterprise: ethnography and cartography in early modern China (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001).
• Howland, D.R., Borders of Chinese civilisation: geography and history at empire's end (Duke, 1996).
• Hoxie, Frederick E., ‘Retrieving the Red Continent: settler colonialism and the history of American Indians in the US’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31:6 (2008), 1153-67. 
• Jones, Grant D., Maya resistance to Spanish rule (Albuquerque, 1989).
• Kuba, Richard, and Carola Lentz, 'Arrows and earth shrines: towards a history of Dagara expansion in southern Burkina Faso', Journal of African History, 43:3 (2002), 377-406.
• Lee, Robert H.G., The Manchurian frontier in Ch'ing history (Cambridge, Mass., 1970).
• McCollough, Martha, Three nations, one place: a comparative ethnohistory of social change among the Comanches and Hasinais during Spain's colonial era, 1689-1821 (London: Routledge, 2004).
• Millward, James A., Ruth W. Dunnell, Mark C. Elliott and Philippe Forêt, ed. New Qing imperial history: the making of Inner Asian empire at Qing Chengde (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
• Perdue, Peter C., China marches west: the Qing conquest of Central Eurasia (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005).
• Perdue, Peter, 'Boundaries, maps, and movement: Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian empires in early modern Central Eurasia', International History Review, 20:2 (1998), 263-86.
• Reardon-Anderson, James, Reluctant pioneers: China's expansion northward, 1644-1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
• Reid, John G., et al., The 'conquest' of Acadia, 1710: imperial, colonial, and aboriginal constructions (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2004).
• Shepherd, John R., Statecraft and political economy on the Taiwan frontier, 1600-1800 (Stanford, 1993).
• Spence, R.T., 'The pacification of the Cumberland borders, 1593-1628', Northern History, 13 (1977), 59-160.
• Wittek, P., The rise of the Ottoman Empire (London, 1938).
• Yasunori, Arano, 'The formation of a Japanocentric world order', International Journal of Asian Studies, 2:2 (2005), 185-216. Published online: 30 Jun 2005.

Modern

• Connor, John, The Australian frontier wars, 1788-1838 (Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales, 2002).
• Etherington, Norman, The great treks: the transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 (Harlow, 2001).
• Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land by Jerold S. Auerbach.
• Gobat, Michel, Confronting the American dream: Nicaragua under U.S. imperial rule (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
• Grove, Richard H., Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860 (Cambridge, 1995).
• Hennessy, A., The frontier in Latin American history (London, 1975).
• Lamar, Howard, and Leonard Thompson, The frontier in history: north America and southern Africa compared (New Haven, 1981).
• Lee, Robert H.G., The Manchurian frontier in Ch'ing history (Cambridge, Mass., 1970).
• Legrand, Catherine, Frontier expansion and peasant protest in Colombia, 1850-1936 (Albuquerque, 1986).
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson, The legacy of conquest: the unbroken past of the American West (New York: Norton, 1987).
• Lines, William J., Taming the Great South Land: a history of the conquest of nature in Australia (Sydney, 1992).
• Millward, James A., Beyond the pass: Economy, ethnicity, and empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
• Radding, Cynthia, Wandering peoples: colonialism, ethnic spaces, and ecological frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
• Reardon-Anderson, James, Reluctant pioneers: China's expansion northward, 1644-1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). 
• Roy, Patricia E., The oriental question: consolidating a white man's province, 1914-41 (Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 2003).
• Saul, Mahir, and Patrick Royer, West African challenge to empire: culture and history in the Volta-Bani anti-colonial war (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002).
• Steffen, Jerome O., and David Harry Miller, The frontier: comparative studies (Norman, 1977).
• Thompson, John, Closing the frontier: radical response in Oklahoma, 1889-1923 (Norman, 1986).
• Turner, Frederick Jackson, 'The significance of the frontier in American history', The frontier in American history (New York: Henry Holt, 1920), pp. 1-38.
• Wyman, W.D., and C.B. Kroeber, eds, The frontier in perspective (Madison, 1957).

Borderlands

Note that many of the items below could easily be listed under more than one subheading. I have mostly avoided doing this to save space, so please do be imaginative in choosing your material – investigate at least one extra sub-list below in addition to the one(s) that seem most obvious to you, as you may find things that are of unexpected relevance to your topic.

General and theory

• Baud, Michiel, and Willem Van Schendel, 'Toward a comparative history of borderlands', Journal of World History, 8:2 (1997), 211-42.
• Bentley, Jerry H., Renate Bridenthal, and Anand A. Yang, ed., Interactions: Transregional perspectives on World History (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006).
• Bentley, Jerry H., Old World encounters: cross-cultural contacts and exchanges in pre-modern times (Oxford, 1993).
• Campbell, I.C., 'The culture of culture contact: refractions from Polynesia', JWH, 14:1 (2003), 63-86.
• Di Cosmo, Nicola, and Don Wyatt, ed., Political frontiers, ethnic boundaries, and human geographies in Chinese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

Cultural and religious interaction

• Abulafia, David, and Nora Berend, ed. Medieval frontiers: concepts and practices (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
• Birnbaum, Pierre, Jewish destinies: citizenship, state, and community in modern France, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000).
• Brown, J.M., and R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Christians, cultural interactions, and India's religious traditions (London: Routledge, 2002).
• Brown, Melissa J., ed., Negotiating ethnicities in China and Taiwan (Berkeley: University of California, 1996).
• Corfis, I.A., and R. Harris-Northall, ed. Medieval Iberia: changing societies and cultures in contact and transition (Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2007). 
• Cort, John E., ed., Open boundaries: Jain communities and cultures in Indian history (Albany: SUNY, 1998).
• Drakard, Jane, A Malay frontier: unity and duality in a Sumatran kingdom (Ithaca, 1990).
• Frank, Andrew K., Creeks and southerners: biculturalism on the early American frontier (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2005). 
• Gruen, E. S. Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy (Leiden: Brill 1990).
• Harrell, Stevan, ed., Cultural encounters on China's ethnic frontiers (Seattle: University of Washington, 1995).
• Maffly-Kipp, Laurie, Religion and society in frontier California (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
• Manzano Moreno, E., 'Christian-Muslim frontier in al-Andalus: idea and reality', The Arab influence upon medieval Europe, ed. D.A. Agius and R. Hitchcock (Reading, 1994), 83-99.
• Nielsen, Jorgen S., ed., Christian-Muslim frontier: chaos, clash or dialogue? (London, 1998).
• Saddington, D.B., 'The parameters of Romanization', Roman Frontier Studies, ed. V.A. Maxfield and M.J. Dobson (Exeter, 1991), pp. 413-18.
• Sinor, Denis, 'Interpreters in medieval Inner Asia', Studies in medieval Inner Asia (London: Variorum, 1997), XV.

Economic interaction

• Barfield, T.J., The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
• Brodman, James, Ransoming captives in crusader Spain: the Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic frontier (Philadelphia, 1986).
• Chan, Hok-lam, 'Commerce and trade in divided China', Journal of Asian History, 36:2 (2002), 135-83.
• Juliano, A., and J. Lerner, eds., Nomads, traders and holy men along China's Silk Road (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003).
• Smith, Richard L., Premodern trade in world history (London: Routledge, 2008).
• Van Schendel, Willem, 'Working through partition: making a living in the Bengal borderland', International Review of Social History, 46:3 (2001), 371-91.

Political interaction

• Amitai, Reuven, and Michal Biran, ed., Mongols, Turks and others: Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005).
• Mehra, Parshotam, The North-eastern frontier: a documentary study of the internecine rivalry between India, Tibet, and China (Delhi, 1980).
• Skaff, Jonathan Karam, 'Survival in the frontier zone: comparative perspectives on identity and political allegiance in China's Inner Asian borderlands during the Sui-Tang dynastic transition (617–630)', Journal of World History, 15:2 (2004), 117-54. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/15.2/skaff.html
• Standen, N., 'The disappearance of a frontier region: the Liao and the borders of tenth century north China', Selected papers of the 10th biannual conference, European Association for Chinese Studies (Prague, 1996), unpaginated. [Open Access Centre]
• Storey, R.L., 'The wardens of the marches of England towards Scotland, 1377-1485', EHR, 72 (1957), 593-615.

Violent interaction

• Barfield, T.J., The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
• Bonner, Michael, Aristocratic violence and holy war: studies in the jihad and the Arab-Byzantine frontier (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
• Dixon, P., 'Towerhouses, pelehouses and border society', Archaeological Journal, 136 (1979), 240-52.
• Haefeli, Evan, and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and captives: the 1704 French and Indian raid on Deerfield (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2003).
• Haldon, J.F. and Kennedy, H., 'The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries: military organization and society in the borderlands', Recueil des travaux de l'Institut d'ƒtudes Byzantines, 19 (1980), 79-116.
• Horowitz, Donald, Ethnic groups in conflict (Berkeley: University of California, 1985).
• MacKay Mackenzie, W., 'The Debateable Land', Scottish Historical Review, 30 (1951), 109-25.
• Murray, Alan V., ed., Crusade and conversion on the Baltic frontier 1150-1500 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).
• Suppe, F.C., Military institutions on the Welsh Marches: Shropshire 1066-1300 (Woodbridge, 1994).
• Tuck, J.A., 'War and society in the medieval north', Northern History, 21 (1985), 33-52.
• Wyatt, Don J., ed., Battlefronts real and imagined: war, border and identity in the Chinese Middle Period, Wyatt (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008).

Colonial interaction

• Ballantyne, Tony, and Antoinette Burton, ed., Bodies in contact: rethinking colonial encounters in world history (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
• Bickers, Robert, Britain in China: community, culture and colonialism, 1900-1949 (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1999).
• Cronon, William, Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England (New York, 1983).
• Goldhill, Simon, ed., Being Greek under Rome: cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire (Cambridge, 2001).
• Herrera, Robinson A., Natives, Europeans, and Africans in sixteenth-century Santiago de Guatemala (Austin: University of Texas, 2003).
• Jackson, Robert B., At empire's edge: exploring Rome's Egyptian frontier (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
• Lane, George, Early Mongol rule in thirteenth-century Iran: a Persian renaissance (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
• McNeill, William Hardy, Europe's steppe frontier, 1500-1800 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1964).
• Rowlands, I., 'The making of the March: aspects of the Norman settlement in Dyfed', Anglo Norman Studies, 3 (1980), 142-57.
• Russell, Lynette, Colonial frontiers: indigenous-European encounters in settler societies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
• Serulnikov, Sergio, Subverting colonial authority: challenges to Spanish rule in eighteenth-century southern Andes (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).
• Sunderland, Willard, 'Peasant pioneering: Russian peasant settlers describe colonization and the eastern frontier, 1880s-1910s', Journal of Social History, 34:4 (2001), 895-922.
• Swain, Simon, Hellenism and empire: language, classicism and power in the Greek world, A.D. 50-250 (Oxford, 1996).
• Vermeer, Eduard B., 'Population and ecology along the frontier in Qing China', Sediments of time: environment and society in Chinese history, ed. M. Elvin and T.J. Liu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 235-279.
• Whitmarsh, Tim, Greek literature and the Roman empire: the politics of imitation (Oxford, 2001).
• Wieczynski, J.L., The Russian frontier: the impact of borderlands upon the course of early Russian history (Charlottesville, 1976).
• Woolf, Greg, Becoming Roman: The origins of provincial civilization in Gaul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Personal interaction

• Barr, Juliana, Peace came in the form of a woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2007).
• Casas, Maria Raquel, Married to a daughter of the land: Spanish-Mexican women and interethnic marriage in California, 1820-1880 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009).
• Davis, Natalie Zemon, Trickster travels: a sixteenth-century Muslim between two worlds (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006).
• Deutsch, Sarah, No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (New York, 1987).
• Hise, Greg, 'Border city: race and social distance in Los Angeles', American Quarterly, 56:3 (2004), 545-58.
• Jagchid, Sechin, 'Mongolian-Manchu intermarriage in the Ch'ing period', Zentralasiatische Studien, 19 (1986), 68-87.
• Kundrus, Birthe, 'Forbidden company: romantic relationships between Germans and foreigners, 1939 to 1945', Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11:1/2 (2002), 201-22.
• Schwartz, Stuart B., ed., Implicit understandings: observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era (Cambridge, 1994).

Frontier societies

• Bartlett, R., and Mackay, A., eds, Medieval frontier societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
• Bates, D., Normandy before 1066 (London, 1982).
• Blanc-Chaleard, Marie-Claude, Les italiens dans l'est parisien: une histoire d'integration (1880-1960) (Rome: ƒcole fran�aise de Rome, 2000).
• Bowman, Alan Keir, Life and letters on the Roman frontier: Vindolanda and its people (London, 1994).
• Chen Hanseng, Frontier land systems in southernmost China (New York, 1949).
• Cherry, David, Frontier and society in Roman North Africa (Oxford, 1998).
• Cumfer, Cynthia, Separate peoples, one land: the minds of Cherokees, blacks, and whites on the Tennessee frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2007).
• Davies, R.R., 'Kings, lords and liberties in the March of Wales, 1066-1272', TRHS, 5th ser., 29 (1979), 41-61.
• DuVal, Kathleen, The native ground: Indians and Colonists in the heart of the continent (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2006). 
• Galler, R., ‘Making common cause: Yanktonais and Catholic missionaries on the northern plains’, Ethnohistory, 55:3 (2008), 439-64. 
• Goodman, A., 'The Anglo-Scottish marches in the fifteenth century: a frontier society?', Scotland and England, 1286-1815, ed. R.A. Mason (Edinburgh, 1987), pp. 18-33.
• Khouri, Rami G., Jerash, a frontier city of the Roman East (London, 1986).
• Lewis, James B., Frontier contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan (London, 2003).
• Power, Daniel, and Naomi Standen, Frontiers in question: Eurasian borderlands, 700 1700 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999).
• Rossabi, Morris, ed., China among equals: the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th to 14th centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
• Sahlins, Peter, Boundaries: the making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (Berkeley: University of California, 1989).
• Tapper, Richard, Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan (New York, 1966).
• TeBrake, W.H., Medieval frontier: culture and ecology in Rijnland (Austin, 1985).
• White, R., The middle ground: Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Bibliography: Persuasive Encounters

Bibliography: Social Encounters

General reading

• Harman, Chris, People's History of the World (Bookmarks, London, 1999).
• Hobsbawm, E. J., On history (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997).
• Mann, M., The Sources of Social Power, vol.1 & 2 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986).
• Perry, Matt, Marxism and History (Palgrave, 2000)
• Rosen, Michael and Widgery, David (eds), The Vintage Book of Dissent (Vintage, London, 1996).
• Wickham, Chris (ed.), Marxist History-Writing for the Twenty-First Century (British Academy, Oxford, 2007), especially good essays on the ancient world, feudalism and twentieth century and Marxist historiography today.

Session one – Sources of social conflict: early civilisations

• Brunt, P. A., 'A Marxist View of Roman History', The Journal of Roman Studies, 1982, 158-63.
• Brunt, P. A., Social conflicts in the Roman republic (London : Hogarth, 1986).
• Childe, Gordon, What happened in history (Baltimore: Penguin books, 1969).
• Childe, V. Gordon, Man makes himself, (London, Watts, 1965).
• Daniel, Glyn and Christopher Chippindale, The Pastmasters: eleven modern pioneers of archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, etc. (New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1989).
• De Ste. Croix, G. Class Struggles in the Ancient Greek World (Duckworth, London: 1981).
• Gernet, Jacques, A history of Chinese civilization (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• Ingold, Tim, Riches, David, Woodburn, James, (eds.) Hunters and gatherers (Oxford; New York: Berg, 1988).
• Katz, Friedrich, The ancient American civilisations (London : Phoenix Giant, 1997).
• Leacock, Eleanor, Lee, Richard (eds.), Politics and history in band societies (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press ; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982).
• Lee, Richard B. and Daly, Richard H. (eds.). The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
• Lee, Richard B. and DeVore, Irven, Kalahari hunter-gatherers: studies of the !Kung San and their neighbors (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976).
• Lee, Richard B. and DeVore, Irven, with the assistance of Nash, Jill, Man the hunter. (Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co., 1969).
• Lee, Richard B., The !Kung San: men, women, and work in a foraging society (Cambridge,; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
• Lesko, Leonard H. (ed.), Pharaoh's Workers: Villagers of Deir el Medina (Cornell U. P., Ithaca, 1994.)
• Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in history (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993).
• Sahlins, Marshall David, Stone Age economics (London: Routledge, 2004).
• Thapar, Romila, Ancient Indian social history : some interpretations (New Delhi : Orient Longman, 1978).
• Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.), Gordon Childe, revolutions in archaeology (New York: Columbia University Press, c1980).

Session two – Social Encounters in the medieval and early modern period

• Blanning, T., The French Revolution: Bourgeois vs. Aristocrats (MacMillan, Basingstoke: 1987). Against the social interpretation of the French Revolution.
• Bush, M., Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500 (Longman, London: 1992)
• Cohn, Norman, The pursuit of the millennium (London, Secker & Warburg, 1957) .
• E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (first edn, 1963; Harmondsworth, 1968). For a feminist critique of Thompson, J.W.Scott, 'Women and the Making of the English Working Class', in J W Scott (ed.), Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988) for critique of Scott's views see B.D.Palmer, Descent into Discourse: the Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History (Philadelphia, 1990), pp.78-86 and 172-86.
• Hill, Christopher, England's turning point: essays on 17th century English history (London: Bookmarks, 1998).
• Hill, Christopher, God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (New York: Dial Press, 1972).
• Hill, Christopher, Intellectual origins of the English Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
• Hill, Christopher, The century of revolution, 1603-1714 (London: Abacus, 1978).
• Hill, Christopher, The collected essays of Christopher Hill (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1985).
• Hill, Christopher, The experience of defeat: Milton and some contemporaries (London: Faber and Faber, 1984).
• Hilton, R. H., Class conflict and the crisis of feudalism: essays in medieval social history (London; Ronceverte, W. Va.: Hambledon Press, 1985).
• Hilton, Rodney, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 (Methuen: London and New York, 1973).
• Hobsbawm, E. J., Rudé, George, Captain Swing, (London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1969).
• Hobsbawm, E. J., The age of revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (London: Phoenix, 2000).
• Mooers, Colin. The making of bourgeois Europe: absolutism, revolution, and the rise of capitalism in England, France, and Germany (London ; New York: Verso, 1991).
• Parker, D., Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1990, 2000.
• Rudé, George, Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815 (London, Collins, 1964).
• Rudé, George, The crowd in history: a study of popular disturbances in France and England, 1730-1848 (London: Serif, 1995).
• Rudé, George, The crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972). 
• Skocpol, Theda, States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
• Thompson, E.P., Customs in Common (1993; first edition Merlin, 1991).
• Thompson, E.P., Whigs and Hunters: the origin of the Black Act (1990, 1^st edition, Allen Lane, 1975)

Session three – Social encounters in the twentieth century

• Ali, Tariq, and Susan Watkins, 1968: Marching in the Streets (London: Bloomsbury, 1998).
• Ali, Tariq, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (London & Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1987)
• Aron, Raymond, The Elusive Revolution (London: Pall Mall Press, 1969) 371.81 ARO
• Barker, Colin (ed.) Revolutionary Rehearsals (Bookmarks, London 1987)
• Caute, David, Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades (London: Paladin, 1988)
• Hanley, D.L. and Kerr, A.P. (eds.), May '68: coming of age (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989).
• Harman, Chris, The Fire Last Time: 1968 and after (Bookmarks: London, 1988) 909.826 HAR
• Hobsbawm, E. J., Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 (London: Abacus, 1995).
• Hobsbawm, E. J., Primitive rebels; studies in archaic forms of social movement in the 19th and 20th centuries (Manchester University Press, 1959).
• Horn, Gerd-Rainer, The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007).
• Kaiser, Daniel H., The Workers' revolution in Russia, 1917: the view from below (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• Kurlansky, Mark, 1968: the Year that rocked the world (Vintage: London, 2004)            
• Marwick, Arthur, The sixties: cultural revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998). 940.55 MAR
• Mellor, David Alan and Gervereau, Laurent (eds), The Sixties, Britain and France, 1962-1973: The Utopian Years (London: Philip Wilson, 1997)
• Ross, Kristin, May 68 and its Afterlives, (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
• Singer, Daniel, Prelude to revolution; France in May 1968 (New York, Hill and Wang, 1970) Inglehart, Ronald, The May revolt: France 1968 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1976). Quarto 301.1543 ING
• Skocpol, Theda, Social revolutions in the modern world (Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Touraine, Alain, The May Movement: revolt and reform (New York: Random House, 1971).

Wider reading

• Abrams, P., Historical Sociology (Open Books, Shepton Mallet: 1982) 301.a17
• Anderson, P., Arguments within English Marxism (1980).
• Burke, P.. History and Sociology (Allen and Unwin, London, 1980)
• Callinicos, A., Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory (Polity, Cambridge: 1987).
• Chandavarkar, R., ' "Making of the Working Class": E.P. Thompson and Indian history' History Workshop Journal, no.43 (1997).
• Diamond, G. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short history of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (Vintage, 1997)
• Eastwood, D., 'History, politics and reputation: E.P.Thompson reconsidered', History, October 2000.
• Elias, N., State Formation and Civilisation (Blackwell: Oxford, 1982). A key early historical sociologist.
• Genovese, E., Roll, Jordan, Roll: the World the Slaves Made (1975).
• Giddens, A., Politics, Sociology and Social Theory (Polity, 1995). nb on Marx and Weber
• Himmelfarb, G., The New History and the Old (Belknap, London, 1987). Includes an essay on the British Marxist historians and history and sociology from an American conservative's perspective.
• History and Theory special issue: Studies in Marxist historical theory, 20, (4, 1981)
• Hunt, L., (ed.), New Cultural History (University of California: London, 1989) Essay on E.P. Thompson included.
• Kaye, H., Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History (Routledge, London, 1992)
• Kaye, H., The British Marxist Historians (Macmillan: London, 1984)
• Kiernan, V., 'Problems of Marxist history', New Left Review, no.161 (1987).
• Linebaugh, P., 'Commonists of the world unite!' Radical History Review, no.56, (1993).
• Linebaugh, P.,The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (1985), Gutman, H.,The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 ( Oxford, 1976).
• Lloyd, C., Explanation in Social History (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986)
• Lloyd, C., Structures of History (Blackwell: Oxford, 1993).
• McGarr, P., Callinicos A., et al, Marxism and the French Revolution, International Socialism special edition (Summer 1989)
• Neale, R.S., Writing Marxist History: British society, economy and culture since 1700 (1985).
• Palmer, B., 'Critical theory, historical materialism, and the ostensible end of marxism: the Poverty of Theory reconsidered', International Review of Social History, 38, 2, 1993.
• Palmer, B., E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions (1994).
• Skocpol, T., States and Social Revolutions (CUP, 1979)
• Thompson, E.P., 'The politics of theory', R.Samuel (ed.), People's History and Socialist Theory (1981).
• Thompson, E.P., The Poverty of Theory, and Other Essays (1978).

Social Bandits

• Almond, Richard, and A. J. Pollard, ‘The Yeomanry of Robin Hood and Social Terminology in Fifteenth-Century England’, Past & Present, 170 (Feb., 2001), 52-77, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600794
• Antony, Robert J., ‘Peasants, Heroes, and Brigands: The Problems of Social Banditry in Early Nineteenth-Century South China’, Modern China, 15, 2 (Apr., 1989), 123-48, http://www.jstor.org/stable/189363
• Blok, Anton, ‘The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 14, 4 (Sep., 1972), 494-503, http://www.jstor.org/stable/178039
• Hilton, R. H., ‘The Origins of Robin Hood’, Past & Present, 14 (Nov., 1958), 30-44, http://www.jstor.org/stable/650091
• Hobsbawm, Eric J., Primitive rebels: studies in archaic forms of social movement in the 19th and 20th centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1959).
• Hobsbawm, Eric, ‘Social Bandits: Reply’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 14, 4 (Sep., 1972), 503-505, http://www.jstor.org/stable/178040
• Holt, J. C., ‘Robin Hood: Some Comments’, Past & Present, 19 (Apr., 1961), 16-18, http://www.jstor.org/stable/649977
• Isaac, Benjamin, ‘Bandits in Judaea and Arabia’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 88, (1984), 171-203, http://www.jstor.org/stable/311452
• Joseph, Gilbert M., ‘On the Trail of Latin American Bandits: A Reexamination of Peasant Resistance’, Latin American Research Review, 25, 3 (1990), 7-53, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2503816
• Keen, Maurice, ‘Robin Hood -- Peasant or Gentleman?’, Past & Present, 19 (Apr., 1961), 7-15, http://www.jstor.org/stable/649976
• O'Malley, Pat, ‘Class Conflict, Land and Social Banditry: Bushranging in Nineteenth Century Australia’, Social Problems, 26, 3 (Feb., 1979), 271-283, http://www.jstor.org/stable/800453
• Perry, E. J., ‘Social Banditry Revisited: The Case of Bai Lang, a Chinese Brigand’, Modern China 9 (1983), 355-82.
• Shaw, Brent D., ‘Bandits in the Roman Empire’, Past & Present, 105 (Nov., 1984), 3-52, http://www.jstor.org/stable/650544
• White, Richard, ‘Outlaw Gangs of the Middle Border: American Social Bandits’, The Western Historical Quarterly, 12, 4 (Oct. 1981), 387-408, http://www.jstor.org/stable/968851
• Xu Youwei, and Philip Billingsley, ‘When Worlds Collide: Chinese Bandits and Their "Foreign Tickets"’, Modern China, 26, 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 38-78, http://www.jstor.org/stable/189470

Millenarianism

• Barkun, Michael, Disaster and the millennium (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974). 
• Bowie, Fiona, with Christopher Deacy, The Coming Deliverer: millennial themes in world religions (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997). 
• Capp, B. S., The Fifth Monarchy Men; a study in seventeenth-century English millenarianism (London: Faber, 1972).
• Cohn, Norman, The Pursuit of the Millennium (London: Secker & Warburg, 1957). 
• Davis, Mike, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world (London: Verso, 2001), Chapter 6.
• Hill, Christopher, Antichrist in seventeenth-century England: the Riddell memorial lectures (London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1971). 
• Hill, Christopher, The English Bible and the seventeenth-century revolution (London, Allen Lane; New York: Penguin Press, 1993). 
• Hill, Christopher, The experience of defeat : Milton and some contemporaries (London: Faber and Faber, 1984). 
• Hill, Christopher, The world turned upside down; radical ideas during the English revolution (London: Temple Smith, 1972). 
• Williams, Ann (ed), Prophecy and Millenarianism: essays in honour of Marjorie Reeves (Essex: Longman, 1980). 
• Worsley, Peter, The Trumpet Shall Sound: a Study of "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia (London: Paladin, 1968).

On Chinese millenarianism

• Ownby, David, ‘Chinese Millenarian Traditions: The Formative Age’, American Historical Review, 104, 5 (1999), http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.5/ah001513.html
• Shek, Richard, ‘Millenarianism without rebellion: the Huangtian Dao in North China’, Modern China, 8, 3, (July 1982), 305-336, http://www.jstor.org/stable/188926
• Wakeman, Frederick, ‘Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History’, Journal of Asian Studies, 36 (1977), 201-38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2053720

On Brazilian millenarianism

• Cava, Ralph Della, ‘Brazilian Messianism and National Institutions: A Reappraisal of Canudos and Joaseiro’, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 48, 3 (Aug., 1968), 402-20, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2511235
• Isaura, Maria, ‘Messiahs in Brazil’, Past & Present, 31, 1 (1965), 62-86.
• Levine, Robert M., ‘Canudos in the National Context’, The Americas, 48, 2 (Oct., 1991), 207-22, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1006824
• Levine, Robert M., ‘Mud-Hut Jerusalem": Canudos Revisited’, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 68, 3 (Aug., 1988), 525-72, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2516518
• Madden, Lori, "Evolution in the interpretations of the Canudos Movement: an evaluation of the social sciences," Luso-Brazilian Review, 28, 1 (Summer 1991), 59-75, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3513283

Bibliography: Technological Encounters

General archaeology (many further books will be found at 930.1 and adjacent shelves in the Robinson Library)

• Greene, K. 2002 Archaeology: an introduction. 4th ed., London: Routledge. 930.102
• Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. 2004 Archaeology: theories, methods and practice. 4th edition, London: Thames and Hudson. 930.1 REN
• Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. (eds). 2005 Archaeology: the key concepts. London: Routledge. 930.1 ARC
• Turnbaugh, W.A.Jurmain, R.Nelson, H. & Kilgore, L. 2001 Understanding physical anthropology and archaeology. 8th ed, Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth Publishing. Q599.9-UND (7th ed)

Prehistory

• Bogucki, P. 1999 The origins of human society. Oxford: Blackwell. 306 BOG
• Clark, G. 1977 World prehistory in new perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 930.1-CLA
• Fagan, B.M. 2001 People of the earth: and introduction to world prehistory. 10th ed, Prentice Hall. 930 FAG
• Gamble, C. 1994 Timewalkers: the prehistory of global colonization. Gloucester: Alan Sutton. 930.1-GAM
• Scarre, C. (ed.) 1999 'Times' archaeology of the world. Times Books. 930.1 PAS
• Scarre, C. (ed.) 2005 The human past: world prehistory and the development of human societies. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Tattersall, I. 2008 The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE. OUP: New Oxford World History
• Trigger, B.G. 2003 Understanding early civilizations: a comparative study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 930 TRI
• Wenke, R.J. 1999 Patterns in prehistory: humankind's first three million years. 4th ed: Oxford University Press. 569.9 WEN

Social evolution in prehistory

• Childe, V.G. 1942 What happened in history. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 930-CHI L&P 901 71*
• Gathercole, P. 2005 'Childe's revolutions', in Renfew, C. and Bahn, P. (eds), Archaeology: the key concepts. London: Routledge: 35-41. 930.1 ARC
• Greene, K. 1999 'V Gordon Childe and the vocabulary of revolutionary change', Antiquity 73.279: 97-109. PER 913-ANT
• Morgan, L.H. 1871 Ancient society, or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization. New York: Henry Holt (repr 1985: Tucson: University Arizona Press).

General technology (further books will be found at 609 in the Robinson Library)

• Adams, R.McC. 1996 Paths of fire: an anthropologist's enquiry into western technology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 303.483-ADA
• Buchanan, R.A. 1992 The power of the machine: the impact of technology from 1700 to the present. London: Viking. 609-BUC
• Daumas, M. (ed.) 1969 A history of technology and invention 1: the origins of technological civilization. New York: Crown. 609-HIS
• Mokyr, J. 1990 The lever of riches: technological creativity and economic progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 338.064-MOK
• Mokyr, J. 1990 Twenty-five centuries of technological change: an historical survey. New York: Harwood Academic 330.941-BRI 

Technological theory

• Bijker, W., Hughes, T.P. and Pinch, T. (eds) 1987 The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press. 303.483-SOC
• Fox, R. (ed.) 1996 Technological change: methods and themes in the history of technology. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic. 609-TEC
• Greene, K. 2004 'Archaeology and technology', in Bintliff, J. (ed.), Blackwell companion to archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell 155-73. 930.1 COM
• Lemonnier, P. (ed.) 1993 Technological choices: transformations in material cultures since the Neolithic. London: Routledge. 301.243-TEC  
• Sigaut, F. 1994 'Technology', in Ingold, T. (ed.), Companion encyclopedia of anthropology. London: Routledge: 420-59. R930.1-COM 
• Smith, M. Roe and Marx, L. (eds) 1994 Does technology drive history? The dilemma of technological determinism. MIT Press. 301.243-ROE

Background to lecture 1: human origins and cognitive development

• Berger, L. and Hilton-Barber, B. 2000 In the footsteps of Eve: the mystery of human origins. Washington: National Geographic Society. 599.938 BER
• Blundell, G. (ed) 2006 Origins: the story of the emergence of humans and humanity in Africa. Double Storey Books NCLX
• Delson, E., Tattersall, I. and Van Couvering, J.A. (eds) 1999 Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory. New York : Garland 599.938 ENC
• Gamble, C. 1999 Palaeolithic societies of Europe: the Palaeolithic settlement of Europe. 2nd rev edition. Cambridge UP: Cambridge World Archaeology. 936 GAM
• Isaac, B. (ed.) 1989 The archaeology of human origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 930.1-ISA
• Klein, R.G. 1999 The human career: human biology and cultural origins. 2nd ed, Chicago University Press. 612-KLE
• Leakey, M. 1979 Olduvai Gorge: my search for early man. London: Collins. 573.3-LEA
• Lewin, R. 1989 Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 573.2-LEW
• Lewis-Williams, D. 2003 The mind in the cave: consciousness and the origins of art. London: Thames & Hudson. 709.011 LEW
• Mithen, S. 1996 The prehistory of the mind: a search for the origins of art, religion and science. London: Thames and Hudson. 573.2-MIT
• Mithen, S. 2001 'Archaeological theory and theories of cognitive evolution', in Hodder, I. (ed.), Archaeological theory today. Cambridge: Polity 98-121. 930.1-ARC
• Mithen, S. (ed.) 1998 Creativity in human evolution and prehistory. London: Routledge. 599.9-CRE
• Renfrew, C. 2001 'Symbol before concept: material engagement and the early development of society', in Hodder, I. (ed.), Archaeological theory today. Cambridge: Polity 122-40. 930.1-ARC
• Renfrew, C. and Scarre C. (eds) 1998 Cognition and material culture: the archaeology of symbolic storage. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Q930.102-COG
• Renfrew, C. and Zubrow, E. (eds) 1994 The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: New Directions in Archaeology. 930.101-ANC  STS0
• Schick, K. and Toth, N. 2001 'Paleoanthropology at the millennium', in Feinman, G.M. and Price T.D. (eds), Archaeology at the millennium: a sourcebook, Kluwer/Plenum : 39-108. 930.1 ARC
• Sherratt, A. 1997 'Climatic cycles and behavioural revolutions: the emergence of modern humans and the beginning of farming', Antiquity 71: 271-87. PER 913-ANT

Background to lecture 1: prehistoric tools

• Foley, R. 1987 'Hominid species and stone-tool assemblages: how are they related?', Antiquity 61: 380-92. PER 913-ANT 
• Foley, R. 2002 'Parallel tracks in time: human evolution and archaeology', In Cunliffe, B. et al. (eds) Archaeology: the widening debate. Oxford University Press/British Academy: 3-42.
• Gibson, K.R. and Ingold, T. (eds) 1993 Tools, language and cognition in human evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 573.2-TOO
• Schick, K.D. and Toth, N. 1993 Making the silent stones speak: human evolution and the dawn of technology. New York: Simon and Schuster. 930.14 SCH
• Toth, N. and Schick, K. (eds) 2006 The Oldowan: case studies in the Earliest Stone Age. Stone Age Institute Press NCLX
• Wynn, T. 1994 'Tools and tool behaviour', in Ingold, T. (ed.), Companion encyclopedia of anthropology. London: Routledge: 133-61. R930.1-COM 

Background to lecture 2: Roman technology

• Greene, K. 1986 The archaeology of the Roman economy. London: Batsford. 913.37-GRE
• Greene, K. 1994 'Technology and innovation in context: the Roman background to mediaeval and later developments', Journal of Roman Archaeology 7: 22-33. PER 913 JOU 
• Greene, K. 2000 'Technological innovation and economic progress in the ancient world: M I Finley reconsidered', Economic History Review 53: 29-59. PER 330-ECO
• Hill, D.R. 1984 A history of engineering in classical and medieval times. London. 620.93-HIL
• Lewis, M.J.T. 1997 Millstone and hammer: the origins of water power. Hull: Hull University Press.
• Oleson, J.P. 1984 Greek and Roman mechanical water-lifting devices: the history of a technology. Buffalo: Reidel. 621.209-OLE
• Oleson, J.P. (ed.) Handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. New York: Oxford University Press. 609.38 OXF 
• White, K.D. 1984 Greek and Roman technology.  London: Thames and Hudson. 609-WHI
• Wikander, …. 1981 'The use of water-power in classical antiquity', Opuscula romana 13.7: 91-104. PER 913-OPU
• Wikander, …. (ed.) 2000 Handbook of ancient water technology. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 627.09 HAN
• Wilson, A. 1995 'Water-power in North Africa and the development of the horizontal water-wheel. [Review of Rakob 1993]', Journal of Roman Archaeology 8: 499-510. PER 913-JOU 
• Wilson, A. 2002 'Machines, power and the ancient economy', Journal of Roman Studies 92: 1-32. PER 870-JOU 

Background to lecture 3: economic development and industrialisation (browsing in the Robinson Library will find enormous numbers of books on economic history and the Industrial Revolution)

• Berg, M. 1994 The age of manufactures: industry, innovation and work in Britain 1700-1820. London: Routledge. 338.4767 BER
• Berg, M. 2004 'In pursuit of luxury: global history and British consumer goods in the eighteenth century', Past and Present 182: 85-142. PER 900 PAS 
• Berg, M. and Clifford, H. (eds) 1999 Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650-1850. Manchester 381.40940903 CON
• Dugan, S. and, D. 2000 The day the world took off: the roots of the Industrial Revolution. London: Channel 4: Books. 909.81-DUG COW
• Palmer, M. and Neaverson, P. 1998 Industrial archaeology: principles and practice London: Routledge. 609-PAL
• Snodin, M. and Styles, J. 2001 Design and the decorative arts: Britain 1500-1900. London: Victoria and Albert Museum Publications.
• Weatherill, L. 1996 Consumer behaviour and material culture, 1660-1760. 2nd edition, London: Routledge. 339.470941 + EBOOK

Background to lecture 3: general ceramics (lots more books at 738 in Robinson Library)

• Battie, D. (ed.) 1998 Sotheby's concise encyclopedia of porcelain. London : Chancellor Press 738.209 SOT
• Charleston, R.J. (ed.) 1968 World ceramics: an illustrated history. Feltham: Hamlyn.
• Cohen, D.H. and Hess, C. 1993 Looking at European ceramics: a guide to technical terms. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum. 738.094-LOO
• Cooper, E. 2000 10,000 years of pottery. London: British Museum Press. 738.09 COO
• Freestone, I. and Gaimster, D. (eds) 1997 Pottery in the making: world ceramic traditions. London: British Museum Press. Q666.39-POT
• Hamer, F. and J. 1987 The potter's dictionary of materials and techniques. 4th ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 738.103 HAM

Background to lecture 3: Roman ceramics

• Charleston, R.J. 1955 Roman pottery. London: Faber and Faber. 738.30937 CHA
• Greene, K. 2007 'Late Hellenistic and early Roman invention and innovation: the case of lead-glazed pottery', American Journal of Archaeology 111.4: 653-71. PER 913-AME
• Jackson, M. and Greene, K. 2008 'Ceramic production', In Oleson, J.P. (ed.) Handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. New York: Oxford University Press: 496-519. 609.38 OXF
• Peacock, D.P.S. 1982 Pottery in the Roman world: an ethnoarchaeological approach. London: Longman. 913.37:750-PEA STS0
• Roberts, P. 1997 'Mass-production of Roman finewares', in Freestone I. and Gaimster D. (eds), Pottery in the making: world ceramic traditions. London: British Museum Press: 189-93. Q666.39-POT
• Vickers, M. (ed.) 198? Pots and pans. Oxford. 913.38:75-POT
• Vickers, M., Impey, O. and Allan, J. 1986 From silver to ceramic: the potter's debt to metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, oriental and Islamic worlds. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. Shefton 913.38:75-VIC

Background to lecture 3: Asian and european medieval ceramics

• Carswell, J. 2006 Iznik pottery. London: British Museum Press
• Carswell, J. 2007 Blue and white: Chinese porcelain around the world. London: British Museum Press (New pb edn.) 738.20951 CAR
• Dark, K.R. 2001 Byzantine pottery. Stroud: Tempus 738.09495 DAR
• Gaimster, D.R.M. and Redknap, M. (eds) 1992 Everyday and exotic pottery from Europe c 650-1900: studies in honour of John G Hurst. Oxford: Oxbow. 738.3094 EVE
• Harrison-Hall, J. 1997 'Ding and other white wares of northern China', in Freestone I. and Gaimster D. (eds), Pottery in the making: world ceramic traditions. London: British Museum Press: 182-7. Q666.39-POT
• Hill, D.V. 2006 The materials and technology of glazed ceramics from the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran. Oxford: Brit. Archaeol. Rep. S1511. 935 HIL
• Jenkins-Madina, M. 2006 Raqqa revisited: ceramics of Ayyubid Syria. Metropolitan Museum of Art/New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 738.095691 RAQ
• Lane, A. 1947 Early Islamic pottery : Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. London: Faber and Faber 738.09 LAN
• Medley, M. 1989 The Chinese potter: a practical history of Chinese ceramics. 3rd ed. London: Phaidon Press 738.0951 MED
• Needham, J. (Kerr, R. and Wood, N.) 2004 Science and civilisation in China. V. Chemistry and chemical technology. 12: Ceramic technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: Science and Civilisation in China. 509.51-NEE
• Rackham, B. 1947 Medieval English pottery. London: Faber and Faber. 738.0942 RAC
• Wilkinson, C.K. 1963 Iranian ceramics. New York: Asia House/H.N. Abrams 738.0955 WIL

Background to lecture 3: early modern ceramics

• Dawson, A. 1997 'The growth of the Staffordshire ceramic industry', in Freestone I. and Gaimster D. (eds), Pottery in the making: world ceramic traditions. London: British Museum Press: 200-205. Q666.39-POT
• Poole, J. 1997 Italian maiolica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks I 738.309 POO
• Rackham, B. 1951 Early Staffordshire pottery. London: Faber and Faber. 738.094246 RAC
• Walford, T. and Young, H. (eds) 2003 British ceramic design, 1600-2002. Beckenham: English Ceramic Circle 738.0941 BRI
• Wilson, T. 1989 Maiolica: Italian Renaissance ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 738.30945 WIL