Steven C. Eames
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814722701
- eISBN:
- 9780814722718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814722701.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter discusses the preparation of frontier communities to defend themselves, and the use of fortified or “garrison” houses. Provincial soldiers, often part of a larger offensive or defensive ...
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This chapter discusses the preparation of frontier communities to defend themselves, and the use of fortified or “garrison” houses. Provincial soldiers, often part of a larger offensive or defensive force, were sent to the more exposed areas of the frontier line and distributed among those communities. They were assigned to garrison houses within each town, which were the first line of defense on the northern frontier. These ubiquitous structures, whose numbers varied from town to town, either were private dwellings wned by local officials or were simply strategically located. In addition to being the center of military activity, they often served as public houses and taverns as well. Families within the community were assigned to the nearest garrison, and the numbers involved combined with the length of stay could create intolerable living conditions.Less
This chapter discusses the preparation of frontier communities to defend themselves, and the use of fortified or “garrison” houses. Provincial soldiers, often part of a larger offensive or defensive force, were sent to the more exposed areas of the frontier line and distributed among those communities. They were assigned to garrison houses within each town, which were the first line of defense on the northern frontier. These ubiquitous structures, whose numbers varied from town to town, either were private dwellings wned by local officials or were simply strategically located. In addition to being the center of military activity, they often served as public houses and taverns as well. Families within the community were assigned to the nearest garrison, and the numbers involved combined with the length of stay could create intolerable living conditions.
Steven C. Eames
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814722701
- eISBN:
- 9780814722718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814722701.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter discusses provincial forts, including their construction, garrisons, and their usefulness in drawing the fury of large enemy forces away from frontier towns. Although garrisons provided ...
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This chapter discusses provincial forts, including their construction, garrisons, and their usefulness in drawing the fury of large enemy forces away from frontier towns. Although garrisons provided a sanctuary and a modicum of protection for the inhabitants and the soldiers, forts symbolized a permanent military presence on the northern frontier. They not only provided a strong defensive structure, but also served as headquarters for the provincial forces in the area and as barracks for scouting parties. To the Eastern Indians the forts embodied the power and the presence of the English government by providing a site for the negotiation and signing of treaties, and, when built on their major invasion routes, by disrupting their normal operations in time of war. Because larger enemy raiding forces focused special attention on the frontier forts, it can be said that the forts became a magnet that drew the fury of the enemy on themselves and away from the exposed communities.Less
This chapter discusses provincial forts, including their construction, garrisons, and their usefulness in drawing the fury of large enemy forces away from frontier towns. Although garrisons provided a sanctuary and a modicum of protection for the inhabitants and the soldiers, forts symbolized a permanent military presence on the northern frontier. They not only provided a strong defensive structure, but also served as headquarters for the provincial forces in the area and as barracks for scouting parties. To the Eastern Indians the forts embodied the power and the presence of the English government by providing a site for the negotiation and signing of treaties, and, when built on their major invasion routes, by disrupting their normal operations in time of war. Because larger enemy raiding forces focused special attention on the frontier forts, it can be said that the forts became a magnet that drew the fury of the enemy on themselves and away from the exposed communities.
Johan A. Lindquist
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832018
- eISBN:
- 9780824869977
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832018.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, ...
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Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and as prostitutes. Indonesians also move across the border in search of work in Malaysia and Singapore as plantation and construction workers or maids. Export-processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vilified in contemporary debates on economic globalization. The book moves beyond these dichotomies to explore the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. The book portrays globalization in terms of relationships that bind individuals together over long distances. It offers a unique ethnographic perspective, drawing together the worlds of factory workers and prostitutes, migrants and tourists, and creating an account of everyday life in a borderland characterized by dramatic capitalist expansion. The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to shed light on the mobility of migrants and tourists on Batam. The first refers to a person's relationship with home while in the process of migration. The second signifies the shame or embarrassment felt when one is between accepted roles and emotional states. The third is used to identify those who are out of place, notably squatters, couples in premarital cohabitation, and prostitutes without pimps. These sometimes overlapping concepts allow the book to move across geographical and metaphorical boundaries and between various economies.Less
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and as prostitutes. Indonesians also move across the border in search of work in Malaysia and Singapore as plantation and construction workers or maids. Export-processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vilified in contemporary debates on economic globalization. The book moves beyond these dichotomies to explore the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. The book portrays globalization in terms of relationships that bind individuals together over long distances. It offers a unique ethnographic perspective, drawing together the worlds of factory workers and prostitutes, migrants and tourists, and creating an account of everyday life in a borderland characterized by dramatic capitalist expansion. The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to shed light on the mobility of migrants and tourists on Batam. The first refers to a person's relationship with home while in the process of migration. The second signifies the shame or embarrassment felt when one is between accepted roles and emotional states. The third is used to identify those who are out of place, notably squatters, couples in premarital cohabitation, and prostitutes without pimps. These sometimes overlapping concepts allow the book to move across geographical and metaphorical boundaries and between various economies.
John R. Bockstoce
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300221794
- eISBN:
- 9780300235166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221794.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
This chapter traces the development of the arctic marine fur trade in the greater Bering Strait region (including the Chukchi Peninsula and Northwestern Alaska) from the founding of the gold rush ...
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This chapter traces the development of the arctic marine fur trade in the greater Bering Strait region (including the Chukchi Peninsula and Northwestern Alaska) from the founding of the gold rush town of Nome in 1899 until 1914. This includes the rise of the “mosquito fleet” of small trading schooners that wintered in the North and worked throughout the region.Less
This chapter traces the development of the arctic marine fur trade in the greater Bering Strait region (including the Chukchi Peninsula and Northwestern Alaska) from the founding of the gold rush town of Nome in 1899 until 1914. This includes the rise of the “mosquito fleet” of small trading schooners that wintered in the North and worked throughout the region.
