Robert S. G. Fletcher is professor of history and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri. His books include British Imperialism and “The Tribal Question”: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919–1936 (2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (2019).Alec Zuercher Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Inlands and Empires in Modern World History, by Robert S. G. Fletcher and Alec Zuercher ReichardtPart I. Routes and Resources1. French Imperial Ambitions and the American Interior in the Era of the Chickasaw Wars, by Alec Zuercher Reichardt2. Trading China into a New Era: The Inland Spaces of the Huizhou Merchants, 1700–1850, by Anne Gerritsen3. Opening the Interior? Markets and the Incomplete Inland Empire of Rail on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, c. 1840–1900, by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay4. Capitalist Connectivity, Labor Isolation: British-Managed Estancias in Inland Tierra del Fuego, 1897–1944, by Nicolás Gómez Baeza5. Broken Hill: The Problem of Water for an Inland Mining Empire, by Katie Holmes and Lilian PearcePart II. Realms and Resistance6. The Great Dismal Swamp’s Inland “City of Refuge” During the Early Age of Revolutions, by Marcus P. Nevius7. Russia’s Inland Empire: The Limits of Sovereignty on the Steppe, by Alexander Morrison8. Imperial Futures on the Zambezi: Contesting Sovereignty in the Watery Badlands of Caprivi Zipfel, c. 1890–1990, by David M. Anderson9. Upriver and Over the Mountains: Indigenous Homelands and Imperial Invasions in Northwestern North America, by Patrick Lozar10. A “Live Laboratory” of Noncapitalist Development: Positioning Mongolia in the Informal Soviet Empire, 1919–1940, by Ivan Sablin and Amgalan Zhamsoev11. The Desert Locust and Its Enemies: Science, Sovereignty, and Statecraft in Inland Arabia and East Africa, by Robert S. G. Fletcher12. The Tell-Tale Heart: Midwestern History Through an Imperial Lens, by Kristin HogansonContributorsIndex

Exploring twelve interior regions across the world, from the American Midwest to southeast China, Inlands shows that interior regions as much as coastal zones helped shape and reshape empires, trade, and geopolitics. The authors have given us a highly original perspective that turns global history inside out.