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The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century.
The English Channel was a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Francés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Cambridge social and cultural histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The border invented; Part II The border imposed; Part III Transgressing the border; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; 1 The impossibility of an island: before the Channel was a sea; 2 When the sea had no name; 3 Defending the military frontier; 4 Who owns the Channel? The overlap of legal rights; 5 The fight for natural resources; 6 The fisherman: 'friend of all nations'?; 7 The game of identities: fraud and smuggling; 8 Crossing the Channel.