Elaine Marie Nelson, University of Kansas:
The contributors of Inlands offer readers variations on traditional global narratives that tend to sweep across oceans and coastlines. Through compelling arguments, this timely compilation reshapes beliefs of inlands as isolated and astutely reveals how the complex contours of the peoples, events, and places found in continental interiors are anchors for consequential connections made throughout global histories.

John Darwin, author of Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930:
Exploring twelve interior regions across the world, from the American Midwest to southeast China, Inlands shows that interior regions as much as coastal zones helped shape and reshape empires, trade, and geopolitics. The authors have given us a highly original perspective that turns global history inside out.