Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jovan Pešalj -- Copyright Page / Jovan Pešalj -- Notes on Contributors / Jovan Pešalj -- Introduction / Jovan Pešalj -- Chapter 1 States, Borders, and Security in Global History / Leo Lucassen -- Chapter 2 Diplomatic Safe Conducts across Sixteenth-Century Habsburg-Ottoman Borders / Megan K. Williams -- Chapter 3 “Hard Border” Facilitates Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border Control Regime in the Eighteenth Century / Jovan Pešalj -- Chapter 4 Clerks, Guards and Physicians: Imperial Staff and the Implementation of Border Security Concepts within the Transylvanian Military Border / Sabine Jesner -- Chapter 5 The Mobility Control of “Foreigners” in the Habsburg Monarchy / Ikaros Mantouvalos -- Chapter 6 The Control of Mobility in France, 1680–1780 / Vincent Denis -- Chapter 7 An Exclusionary Border Regime: The Ottoman Case, 1890–1914 / Sinan Dinçer -- Chapter 8 Control and Agency: Regimes and Repertoires of Migration in Late Imperial Russia / Leslie Page Moch -- Chapter 9 Borderline Experiences: Russian Return Migrants and Privatized Border Controls in Central Europe, 1880–1914 / Tobias Brinkmann -- Chapter 10 Border Control on Ellis Island: Austro-Hungarians Crossing the Atlantic in the Age of Mass Migration / Annemarie Steidl -- Chapter 11 Protecting Australia’s Borders since the 1850s: At the Cutting Edge of Border Control but on the Edge of International Acceptability / Irial Glynn -- Selected Bibliography / Jovan Pešalj -- Index / Jovan Pešalj.

In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by centuries. The 11 contributions in this volume explore the role of early modern and modern dynastic kingdoms and empires in Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia and the evolution of border controls from the 16th to the 20th century. They analyse how these states interacted with other polities, such as emerging nations states in Europe, North America and Australia, and what this means for a broader reconceptualization of mobility in Europe and beyond in the longue durée. Contributors are: Tobias Brinkmann, Vincent Denis, Sinan Dinçer, Josef Ehmer, Irial A. Glynn, Sabine Jesner, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Leo Lucassen, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Leslie Page Moch, Jovan Pešalj, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Annemarie Steidl, and Megan Williams.

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