Bernardo Michael
Bernardo Michael is a professor and chair of the department of history at Messiah University. He has written on the history of the Anglo-Gorkha borderlands and is the author of Statemaking and Territory: Lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816) (Anthem Press, 2012). He is currently working on a biography of the Anglican educator and activist, Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940).
From frontier to boundary
What the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 can tell us about contemporary border issues.
Aug 26, 2020
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