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

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.

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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.

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