CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART I Ways to Think About Borders
5. CHAPTER 1 Toward a Prehistory of Territory 17
6. CHAPTER 2 Things to Think With 38
7. CHAPTER 3 Lines on a Map 60
8. CHAPTER 4 Data Maps of Downeast Maine 89
9. PART II Creating Place
10. CHAPTER 5 Depicting and Defining the Plantation in the Early English Caribbean, 1625–1675 115
11. CHAPTER 6 When a River Is a Border 142
12. CHAPTER 7 Military Lines 164
13. PART III Movement
14. CHAPTER 8 Indian Centers, Colonial Peripheries 191
15. CHAPTER 9 “Playing the Old Game of Double” 215
16. CHAPTER 10 Comercio Libre 242
17. CHAPTER 11 Possibilities and Peril 264
18. CHAPTER 12 Amphibious Tales 289
19. CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES 317
20. INDEX 321
21. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 333