{"product_id":"people-of-the-iberian-borderlands-9780367758202","title":"People of the Iberian Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is devoted to the inhabitants of the SpanishPortuguese borderlands during the early modern period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of consolidation of spaces of sovereignty in a no less limiting vision. Faced with both approaches, the objective of this work is not to deny them but, first and foremost, to situate the experiences of border populations outside of logics that I understand as originally alien to themselv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART ONE:\u003c\/strong\u003e Communities between two communities 1. The Portuguese of Castile, the Castilians of Portugal 2. The unrepresented 3. Refuge and destruction 4. Contraband, modus vivendi \u003cb\u003ePART TWO:\u003c\/b\u003e War and the politics of daily life 5. On local truces 6. A grand yet local peace 7. ‘A wolflike urge’ 8. A \u003ci\u003erayano\u003c\/i\u003e perspective on borderland custom houses \u003cb\u003ePART THREE:\u003c\/b\u003e At peace along the \u003ci\u003eRaya\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Restored sovereignties 10. ‘At the back of the world’ 11. Innumerable unresolved conflicts 12. The return of Mars\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018062332247,"sku":"9780367758202","price":121.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367758202.jpg?v=1750775508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/people-of-the-iberian-borderlands-9780367758202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}