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world. It was only in the final third of the 19th century that governments in the region<br />

developed sufficient strength to compel allegiance from their peripheries. Even then,<br />

borderlands courts remained critical sites where prickly questions regarding the nation and<br />

its peripheries were negotiated. By using the courts, the inhabitants of national peripheries<br />

retained their power to define their personal allegiances and political associations.<br />

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