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The Channel - England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Channel - England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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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.
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