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Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

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Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.

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Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674735385

Hardcover