The Algerian-Tunisian frontier zone was much contested in the late nineteenth century, defying the logic of modernity that sought to establish territoriality. This modernity appeared only through an imbrication of raids, warfare, environmental shifts, and competing territorial claims. The violence of the territorial process, the changing geography of sovereignty, and uncertain frontier delimitation: these and other elements challenge the image of modernity arising in a fixed territory according to a linear chronology. This article argues that modernity in the Maghrib, seen through the lens of territory, is a temporally and spatially variable process: “modern” sovereign power existed only at certain levels of abstraction and within certain environmental relations. To consider modernity in the Maghrib, we will have to see how claims of sovereignty and the process of territorialization were understood by actors operating on local, regional, and imperial scales.

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相信边界，或者如何在19世纪的马格里布（Maghrib）中实现现代性

阿尔及利亚-突尼斯的边境地区在19世纪后期备受争议，这违背了试图建立领土性的现代逻辑。这种现代性仅通过突袭，战争，环境变化和相互竞争的领土主张的融合而显现。领土进程的暴力，主权地域的变化以及边界的不确定性：这些因素和其他因素根据线性的年代顺序，挑战了在固定领土上出现的现代性形象。本文认为，从领土的角度看，马格里布的现代性是一个随时间和空间变化的过程：“现代”主权力量仅在某些抽象层次和某些环境关系中存在。为了考虑马格里布的现代性，