Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; A Note on the Maps; Chapter 1 Introducing the Borderland; 1 What is a Borderland?; 2 Where is the Mesopotamian Borderland?; 3 A Borderland Emerges; 4 Who "Made" Mesopotamia?; 5 Outlining the Narrative; Part 1 Tradition and Narrative; Chapter 2 Knowing; 1 Strabo's Sources; 2 Pliny's Sources; 3 Ptolemy's Sources; 4 Spatial Measurement; 5 Hellenistic Knowledge; Chapter 3 Naming; 1 Strabo's Assyria; 2 Pliny; 3 Claudius Ptolemy; 4 The Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Ammianus Marcellinus; 6 Labels and Limits; Chapter 4 Narrating; 1 Strabo
2 Pliny the Elder3 Ptolemy; 4 Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Ammianus; 6 Narrating Topologically; 7 Narrating Imperially; Chapter 5 Moving; 1 Skenitai; 2 Gordyaians; 3 Arranging People; 4 Hellenistic Migration; 5 Viewing Space; 6 Individual Mobility; Part 2 Movement and Power; Chapter 6 Carrying; 1 Long-distance Trade; 2 Strabo and the Euphrates Route; 3 Northern Routes; 4 Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Desert Routes; 6 North-South Routes; 7 Local Routes; 8 Representing Mesopotamian Trade; Chapter 7 Ruling; 1 Roman Power in the Borderland; 2 Representing Power; 3 Imperial Space
4 Mesopotamia as a FrontierChapter 8 Epilogue: Connecting; 1 Globalisation and Networks in the Mesopotamian Borderland; 2 The Conceptualisation of the Mesopotamian Borderland; Bibliography; Geographical Index; Index of Ancient Authors; General Index