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This podcast comes out of new research of the experience of living in border communities in the early modern period: it explores how people in the past used borders as a way to face and deal with challenges resulting from an increased globalisation. In four episodes, we explore the reactions in military exchanges, trade, the treatment of refugees, and the making of empire, worth examples from Sweden to China, and from Siberia to the Gold Coast.
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Lisa Hellman: Making the Dzungar Borderlands
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In this episode, Lisa Hellman (Bonn University) is interviewed by Edmond Smith about her research, exploring the border-making in the semi-nomadic Dzungar realm in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The Dzungar empire stretched from modern-day Siberia to modern-day Xinjiang, and challenged the Russian and the Qing empire alike, and a focus on …
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Edmond Smith: Africa, Gold and Global Trade
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In this episode, Lisa Hellman interviews Edmond Smith (the University of Manchester) about border-making on the West coast of Africa. In the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries the Akan region was engaged in a profitable global gold trade via carefully regulated borderlands. In the north, market towns acted as hubs for the trans-Saharan gold trade w…
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Barend Noordam: technological exchanges between the Ottoman and the Ming empires
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In this episode, Lisa Hellman interviews Barend Noordam (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona) about his research about border-making as a cause and an effect of exchanges of military technology between the Ottoman and Ming empires during the 16th and 17th centuries. His research is part of the project "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592–1598", w…
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Sari Nauman: the regulation of refugees in 18th-century Finland-Sweden
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Lisa Hellman interviews Sari Nauman about her research, exploring border-making in the early modern Swedish empire, which included Finland. Her focus is the regulation and treatment of refugees, and she connects these to issues of security, and processes of securitization.
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