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Hadrian's Wall: Ancient Strategies of Border Control and Migration

Join Alex Iles, as he delves into the fascinating history of one of the most iconic structures of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall.

Why countries are walling themselves in – and others out

Today's wall builders aren't fortifying borders to stop armored columns or armies on horseback. Their targets are primarily migrants: people ...

Great Wall of China | Definition, History, Length, Map ... - Britannica

History of construction ... The Great Wall developed from the disparate border fortifications and castles of individual Chinese kingdoms. For ...

Defensive wall | Military Wiki - Fandom

Uruk in ancient Sumer (Mesopotamia) is one of the world's oldest known walled cities. ... In terms of China's longest and most impressive fortification, the Great ...

Six Historians on Why Trump's Border Wall Won't Work - Rolling Stone

Have walls become more of a show of strength, then? Reece Jones: We're in a really different era of walls today. The purpose has changed ...

Why were ancient cities protected by walls? - History Stack Exchange

City walls were for more than defense from attackers. Walls would help a city control immigration and trade, keeping out undesirables would be vital to a city ...

What History Teaches Us About Walls - The New York Times

The classic example is the Great Wall of China. Imposing and remarkably durable, yes, yet it didn't block various nomadic tribes from the north.

There's been an explosion in building border walls since World War II

Border walls and fences have been used throughout history to separate warring nations, protect trade routes and repel migrants and refugees.

Oldest fortifications in the world? | History Forum - Historum

It has been suggested that the first wall of Jericho was built to defend against floods, or to defend against attacks by humans. And I don't ...

Tear Down This Wall | Wilson Center

Two lines of walls are growing around Russia. One line of fortifications is being erected by the Russian authorities to keep people in the country.

Why the wall won't work - Culturico

The border debate rages on, but both sides have failed to consider the deeply flawed assumption that walls can actually stop human movement in ...

How national border walls are splitting ecosystems apart - BBC

Amid a rising tide of nationalism, walls and fortified fences are proliferating around the world. These barriers pose a growing threat to ...

Barriers to Trade: How Border Walls Affect Trade Relations

States have constructed walls for a variety of reasons throughout history. These motivations range from territorial protection (as was the case ...

Expansion of the border fortifications - Berlin Wall

1963: The Wall is refortified. The restricted zone behind the Wall is extended and surrounded by barbed wire and anti-tank trenches.

The Transformation of Europe Behind Closed Borders: A Conversation

The fact that you perceive the use of the term 'defence' to describe border walls as martial is really quite apt. They do indeed serve a martial ...

Walls through history: 9 ranked by length - The Morning Call

President Trump wants to build a wall along the border between U.S. and Mexico. Here are famous border and protective walls through history, ...

Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe

Walls are built and then fall, borders are fortified and then shift, boundaries are demarcated and then transgressed. And then they are constructed all over ...

Poland's border wall will cut Europe's oldest forest in half

Poland's proposed wall resembles the barrier built along parts of the US-Mexico border. Research there based on camera-traps shows that such ...

Reece Jones: White Borders - YouTube

and Immigration in America from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall, Jones shows ... Dorothy Roberts: The Punitive History of Child ...

Tuesday Q&A: History has given us a wealth of walls to study ... so ...

The Great Wall of China: WWU Professor of History Roger R. Thompson ... The Great Wall of China is a series of walls and fortifications built over ...