Beneath the Lines

Chapter 1 Drawing the lines, knowing the borders. An overview of recent scholarship on boundary-making and modern regimes of territorialization.- Part I. Boundary Treaties and Joint Commissions: Theoretical Foundations and Praxis on the Ground.- 2. Modern State Sovereignty as Geometric Purification of Territory. Delimitation Theories and Practices in the 1864 Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Treaty.- 3. Delimitation of the Spanish-Portuguese Border and the Controversy over La Contienda.- 4.From a Line on a Map to Realities on the Ground. The French-German Joint Boundary Commission at Work (1871-1877).- 5. Mexican Geographer Engineers and the Demarcation of Mexico's Borders.- Part II. Contesting the Naturalness of Borders. Cartographic Practices, Geographical Knowledge and Territorial Issues.- 6. Borders on Paper, Borders on the Ground. Boundary Commissions Under the Treaty of Madrid and Their Role in the Reinvention of the Rio de la Plata Frontier (1752-1759).- 7. Rights of Use vs. Natural Boundary: Demarcation of the Iraty Forest Massif (Western Pyrenees, 17th-19th Centuries) 8. A Water Borderline Adrift Between France and Spain. The Bidasoa and the Bay of Higuer at the End of the 19th Century.- 9. Demarcation of the Border of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1913-1931): Chronicle of Failure.- Part III. Concluding Essay.- 10. Borders at the Global Turn.