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The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
- Title
- The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century / Renaud Morieux.
- Author
- Morieux, Renaud
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' was a shifting frontier between states and a space of exchange between populations. This richly textured history shows how the maritime border was imagined by cartographers and legal theorists, delimited by state administrators and transgressed by migrants. It approaches French and English fishermen, smugglers and merchants as transnational actors, whose everyday practices were entangled. The variation of scales of analysis enriches theoretical and empirical understandings of Anglo-French relations, and reassesses the question of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 23
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 23.
- Subjects
- Acculturation
- Maritime boundaries
- England
- France
- Acculturation > France > History > 18th century
- History
- England > Relations > France
- Maritime boundaries > France > History > 18th century
- Maritime boundaries > England > History > 18th century
- International relations
- English Channel > History > 18th century
- 1700 - 1799
- Acculturation > England > History > 18th century
- Atlantic Ocean > English Channel
- France > Relations > England
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-395) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The Border Invented -- 1. The impossibility of an island : before the Channel was a sea -- 2. When the sea had no name -- Part II. The Border Imposed -- 3. Defending the military frontier -- 4. Who owns the Channel? : the overlap of legal rights -- 5. The fight for natural resources -- Part III. Transgressing the Border -- 6. The fisherman : "friend of all nations"? -- 7. The game of identities : fraud and smuggling -- 8. Crossing the Channel.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4477
- ISBN
- 9781107039490 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 1107039495 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2015031746
- OCLC
- 920676985
- Author
- Morieux, Renaud, author.
- Title
- The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century / Renaud Morieux.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 23Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 23.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-395) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700 - 1799
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4477