Challenging the frontiers of colonialism / Christine D. Beaule -- Part I: Local adaptations -- Haudenosaunee settlement ecology before and after contact in Northeastern North America / Eric E. Jones -- Negotiating colonialism on the southern frontier of Spanish Yucatán / Adam R. Kaeding -- The Romans in Britain: colonization on an imperial frontier / Richard Hingley -- Contextualizing the Chinook at contact: the middle village / Douglas C. Wilson, Kenneth M. Ames, and Cameron M. Smith -- Part II: Movement, conflict, and transformation -- Power and resilience: flooding and occupation in a late-nineteenth-century Philippine town / Grace Barretto-Tesoro and Vito Hernandez -- "Is this like the Nile that riseth up?" Ethnic relations at Thmuis / Robert J. Littman and Jay E. Silverstein -- Violence in early maritime encounters in the Pacific / Geoffrey Clark -- Population migrations, colonization, and social changes in the late prehistoric lower Yangtze River / Tianlong Jiao -- Part III: Rethinking categories -- Using a graphic model to explore the range of cross-cultural interaction in ancient borderlands / Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion -- This land is my land: identity and conflict on the western frontier of the Aztec Empire / Jay E. Silverstein -- Images of evangelization and archipelagos of Spanish colonialism in Latin America and the Philippines / Christine D. Beaule -- Conclusions / Christine D. Beaule.