'Ruling the Savage Periphery'

Time to Eat the Dogs

• Episode: 'Ruling the Savage Periphery'
• Website: Time to Eat the Dogs
• Feed URL: http://timetoeatthedogs.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:28:57
• Published: 2020-04-14 04:01

Benjamin Hopkins talks about the concept of the frontier: how it exists not merely as a place on a map but as a set of practices used by colonial states around the world. Hopkins is an associate professor of history at George Washington University. He’s the author of Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices