2026 Reading Challenge

Contested Boundaries Series

8 primary works • 8 total works
This series focuses on conflicts-political, social, cultural, and economic-along the ever-changing territorial boundaries of the American empire to explore the fluidity that characterized these borderlands as they transformed into modern nation states.

Published by University Press of Florida
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
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4.20 · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions
Nathaniel Millett examines how the Prospect Bluff …

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    Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2015 · 1 edition
    “A stimulating collection of new scholarship that …

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    Endgame for Empire: British-Creek Relations in Georgia and Vicinity, 1763 1776
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2015 · 2 editions
    The process of European colonization was not simpl…

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    Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    “Provides fresh insights into the ways that New Or…

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    Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions
    After the American Revolution, enslaved and free b…

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    Borderland Narratives: Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 4 editions
    Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its tr…

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    James Monroe: A Republican Champion
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    3.17     · 64 Ratings · 12 Reviews · 9 editions
    Despite serving his country for 50 years and being…

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    The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown m…

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