García-Álvarez J., Puente-Lozano P. (eds.) Beneath the Lines: Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century

Springer, 2022. — 178 p. — (Historical Geography and Geosciences). — ISBN 978-3-030-96903-5.This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood. Written by scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the essays included in this volume provide a comparative international perspective on the processes of border formation, as well as an integrative approach that seeks to strengthen the links between renewed geo-historical studies and more contemporary-oriented border studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of researchers, including geographers, historians, political scientists and specialists in geopolitics and the history of international relations.Drawing the Lines, Knowing the Borders: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on Boundary-Making and Modern Regimes of Territorialization
Boundary Treaties and Commissions: Theoretical Foundations and Praxis on the Ground
Modern State Sovereignty as Geometric Purification of Territory: Delimitation Theories and Practices in the 1864 Spanish–Portuguese Boundary Treaty
Modern Delimitation of the Spanish-Portuguese Border in an Area Subject to a Centuries-Old Dispute: Dehesa de la Contienda (1893–1894)
From Line on a Map to Realities on the Ground: The French-German Joint Boundary Commission at Work (1871–1877)
Mexican Geographical Engineers and Demarcation of the Borders of Mexico
Contesting the Naturalness of Borders: Cartographic Practices, Geographical Knowledge and Territorial Issues
Borders on Paper, Borders on the Ground: Boundary Commissions Under the Treaty of Madrid and Their Role in the Reinvention of the Rio de la Plata Frontier (1752–1759)
Rights of Use Versus Natural Boundary: The Demarcation of the Iraty Forest Massif (Western Pyrenees, Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
A Water Borderline Adrift Between France and Spain: The Bidasoa and the Bay of Higuer at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The Demarcation of the Border of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1913–1931): Chronicle of a Failure
Concluding Essay
Borders at the Global Turn