Please save your results to "My Self-Assessments" in your profile before navigating away from this page. Entry Borderlands Entry Bourghassi, Carmina — Mark, David M. Entries A-Z. Results per page: 20 40 Add to list close. Read next. These include relic, antecedent, superimposed, subsequent, consequent, and geometric boundaries.
Rivers, mountain ranges, oceans, and deserts can all serve as physical boundaries. Many times, political boundaries between countries or states form along physical boundaries. For example, the boundary between France and Spain follows the peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains, while the Alps separate France from Italy. National boundaries are important to prevent cross borders problems such as illegal immigrants, smuggling of arms and drugs.
It allows governments to monitor these illegal activities in their states properly and to act on them to remove these threats. Borders are political boundaries. They separate countries, states, provinces, counties, cities, and towns. A border outlines the area that a particular governing body controls. The government of a region can only create and enforce laws within its borders. Often borders are set by physical geography, how far a particlular group got to militarlly and agreements set upon the Latitude and Longitude measurements.
Cultural boundaries- boundaries between states that coincide with differences in ethnicity, especially language and religion; another cultural boundary is drawn according to geometry. Example: Based on language, Quebec, and a can be considered a cultural boundary. The 38th is also highly patrolled by military forces on both sides. This is an example of a fortified boundary. Other examples of fortified boundaries are the US and Mexico border and the Palestine and Israel border.
Adding to cultural boundaries being drawn by differences in language, they can also be drawn by socio-economics, a position in relation to others based on income, education, and occupation. Not only linguistic and socio-economic, cultural boundaries are often formed due to religion.
Human-made boundaries are lines drawn by governments. They divide up countries, states, counties, and cities. Most of the time you cannot see them. They are imaginary lines drawn on a map. A physical boundary is a naturally occurring barrier between two or more areas. Physical boundaries include oceans, cliffs, or valleys.
Select from these educational resources to teach middle school students more about physical boundaries. The bibliography is also a valuable tool for further reading. Stein, Mark. How the States Got Their Shapes.
New York: HarperCollins, A very entertaining book explaining the formation of the fifty US states. It is not really intended as an academic work, but it nonetheless highlights the contingent and constructed nature both of international and domestic borders. Wastl-Walter, Doris, ed. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, This excellent anthology includes contributions from more than thirty scholars, including many of the most prominent writers in the field. It illustrates the breadth of modern border studies in terms of theory, methodology, and topic.
Ideally suited for graduate-level seminars or simply for professional scholars seeking exposure to a broad spectrum of thought in a convenient single package. Wilson, Thomas M. A Companion to Border Studies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, This is another excellent anthology comparable to Wastl-Walter , and indeed they are direct competitors.
Despite that and the fact that they have almost completely different casts of contributing authors, anybody who reads both anthologies will likely be struck by the consistencies between the two works. In that sense, both represent what could broadly be termed canonical collections within the modern border studies community.
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