John W. I. Lee¿is an associate professor of history at the¿University of California, Santa Barbara, and a co-organizer¿of the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Ancient Borderlands. Michael North is a professor of history at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Baltic: A History and The Expansion of Europe, 1250–1500.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
John W. I. Lee and Michael North
1. The Usefulness of Borderlands Concepts in Ancient History: The Case of Origen as Monster
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
2. Structures of Power in Late Antique Borderlands: Arabs, Romans, and Berbers
Greg Fisher and Alexander Drost
3. The Transborder Economy of Medieval Cistercian Monasteries in the Southern Baltic Sea Region
Manja Olschowski
4. Visionaries, Violence, and the Legacy of Trauma on the Maine Frontier during King Philip’s War, 1675–1677
Ann Marie Plane
5. Swedish Pomerania in the Eighteenth Century: The Development of Frihet in a Borderland of the Baltic Sea Region
Stefan Herfurth
6. The Duchy of Courland from 1650 to 1737: Transformation of a Religious Borderland in the Baltic Sea Region
Kord-Henning Uber
7. Native Borderlands: Colonialism and the Development of Native Power
Clint Smith
8. Beyond Red-Light Districts: Regional and Transnational Migration in the Mexican-U.S. Borderlands, 1870–1912
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
9. Medicalizing the Borders of an Expanding State: Physicians, Sanitary Reports, and the Frontiers of Mexican Progress, 1930–1950
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
10. Theorizing the Social Functioning of Political Borders through Studies of Cross-Border Petty Trade
Olga Sasunkevich
11. Future Directions in Borderlands Studies
Alexander Drost and Michael North
Contributors
Index

John W. I. Lee is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a co-organizer of the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Ancient Borderlands. Michael North is a professor of history at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Baltic: A History and The Expansion of Europe, 1250–1500.