The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century.
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TextSeries: Cambridge social and cultural historiesPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781316491058
- 1316491056
- 9781139600385
- 1139600389
- 9781316491935
- 1316491935
- Maritime boundaries -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Maritime boundaries -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Acculturation -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Acculturation -- France -- History -- 18th century
- English Channel -- History -- 18th century
- England -- Relations -- France
- France -- Relations -- England
- Frontières maritimes -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Frontières maritimes -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Manche (Mer) -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Angleterre -- Relations -- France
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography
- TRAVEL -- Budget
- TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks
- TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
- TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds
- Acculturation
- International relations
- Maritime boundaries
- Atlantic Ocean -- English Channel
- England
- France
- 1700-1799
- 910.9163/3607 23
- DA670.C4 .M675 2016eb
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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.
The English Channel was a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-395) and index.
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