From Turfan to Taiwan: trade and war on two Chinese frontiers / Peter C. Perdue -- Three overlapping frontiers in early modern Bengal: religious, agrarian, imperial / Richard M. Eaton -- The fragmentary frontier: expansion and ethnogenesis in the Himalayas / Lars Rodseth -- The dynamics of military and cultural frontiers on the southeastern edge of the Inka empire / Sonia Alconini -- The final frontier of the Maya: central Peten, Guatemala, 1450-1700 CE / Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice -- The meetings of peoples and empires at the confluence of the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers / Stephen Aron -- To the supports of heaven: political and ideological conceptions of frontiers in ancient Egypt / Stuart Tyson Smith -- Territory, legacy, and wealth in Iron Age Anatolia / Lynn Swartz Dodd -- The advent of modern education on the Sino-Central Asian frontier / James A. Millward