... the Mosuo for the imaginative field of Shangri-La, which sets the stage for the thrills of a frontier adventure across the Tibetan wilderness. ... Moreover, government representatives in the provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Chapter 6 160.
Southwestern trade was hastened by the presence of the Spanish settlements . ... among them Governor Patrick Henry , obtained Spanish horses through the Pawnee Indians , or bought better stock directly from the Spanish provinces .
Domingo Cabello y Robles, Responses Given by the Governor of the Province of Texas to Questions Put to Him by the Lord ... The cultural and ideological underpinnings of indigenous and colonial slave systems in the Southwest borderlands ...
A history of the Spanish borderlands in North America describes the travels of the conquistador explorers, continuing through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and ...
This book examines Russian policies in the western borderlands during the main period of expansion of the imperial system.
In this pioneering study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty (1368SH1644).
An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia - an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires, and only...
In February, 1830, eighteenyearold Théodore Pavie traveled west on the Camino Real from Natchitoches, in the new state of Louisiana, to Nacogdoches, Texas, which remained under Mexican rule. Events of...
The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces. ... Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet (3 vols.) ... David P. The Mollas of Mustang: Historical, Religious and Oratorical Traditions of the Nepalese-Tibetan Borderland.
... Monclova Saltillo DURANGO What is now considered the American Southwest was made up of the northern provinces of ... After the War of 1812, Anglo-Americans had begun entering Texas, where they sought furs, silver, or adventure.