The deepest border : the Strait of Gibraltar and the making of the modern Hispano-African borderland /

Pack, Sasha D.,

The deepest border : the Strait of Gibraltar and the making of the modern Hispano-African borderland / Sasha D. Pack. - 1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: from shatter zone to borderland, 1850-1900. Inventing a border : British Gibraltar and the Spanish Campo -- Crisis in the Western Channel, 1855-1864 -- Imperial borders -- Tourists and settlers -- Part two: between borderland and empire, 1900-1939. Slipstream potentates -- Illusory neutrality, 1914-1918 -- War on the colonial borderland, 1919-1926 -- A new convivencia -- The blighted republic -- Part three: toward a new paradigm, 1936-1970. The new (old) order, 1936-1942 -- A changing matrix, 1942-1963 -- The end of a modern borderland.

This text presents the history of southern Iberia and the western Maghrib, and the Strait of Gibraltar between them, as a single bicontinental borderland, from roughly 1850 to 1970. Drawing on primary and secondary sources from several countries, it posits a long historical arc of transformation from a remote and hostile religious frontier into a multilaterally managed regional order.

1503607534 electronic book 9781503607538 electronic book hardcover

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2018037749


Geopolitics--History.--Gibraltar, Strait of, Region
Exclaves--History.--Western Mediterranean
Borderlands--History.--Spain
Borderlands--History.--Morocco
Enclaves (Droit international)--Histoire.--Méditerranée occidentale
Régions frontalières--Histoire.--Espagne
Régions frontalières--Histoire.--Maroc
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.
Borderlands.
Boundaries.
Exclaves.
Geopolitics.


Gibraltar--Boundaries--History.
Spain--Boundaries--History.
Morocco--Boundaries--History.
Gibraltar.
Mediterranean Region--Western Mediterranean.
Morocco.
Spain.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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