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Cover -- Contents -- A Note on Orthography and Usage -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Creating the Frontier: Border Formation and the State -- Section I: Building the Frontier: Drawing Lines in Physical Space -- 2 Mapping the Frontier -- 3 Enforcing the Frontier -- 4 Strengthening the Frontier -- Section II: Imagining the Frontier: State Visions of Danger Along the Border -- 5 The Specter of Violence -- 6 "Foreign Asians" on the Frontier -- 7 The Indigenous Threat -- Part Two: Crossing the Frontier: Smuggling, Pro.t, and Resistance -- Section III: Secret Trades, Porous Borders -- 8 The Smuggling of Narcotics -- 9 Counterfeiters Across the Frontier -- 10 Illicit Human Cargoes -- Section IV: The Illegal Weapons Trade Across the Anglo/Dutch Frontier -- 11 Munitions and Borders: Arms in Context -- 12 Praxis and Evasion: Arms in Motion -- Section V: A Frontier Story: The Sorrows of Golam Merican -- 13 Contraband and the Junk Kim Ban An -- 14 Worlds of Illegality, 1873-99 -- 15 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Knowledge as Property in the International State System -- Chapter 2. The Battle over Technology within the Empire -- Chapter 3. Benjamin Franklin and America's Technology Deficit -- Chapter 4. After the Revolution: ''The American Seduction of Machines and Artisans'' -- Chapter 5. O≈cial Orchestration of Technology Smuggling -- Chapter 6. Constructing the American Understanding of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 7. The Path to Crystal Palace -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "Less Than We Think" -- What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Globalization? -- Is English Conquering the World? -- The Ubiquitous American Film -- American Television and the Rise of Local Programming -- The McDonald's Brouhaha -- What about the Internet? -- Do American Companies Dominate the World Economy? -- Seeing Ourselves Everywhere -- 2. The Resistance of the Local -- Language -- Communicative Distance -- Food -- Gender -- Education -- Work -- Land Use -- Tribalism -- Corruption -- Smuggling and Counterfeiting -- Taxes -- The Resistance of the Local -- 3. "More Than We Know" -- ATMs -- The Money Market -- Flexible Manufacturing -- Franchising -- Airfreight -- Containerized Freight -- Bar Codes -- Computing -- Logistics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.