The Deepest Border - The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland (Hardcover)

In the mid-nineteenth century, as European navies learned to neutralize piracy, new patterns of circulation and settlement became possible in the western Mediterranean. The Deepest Border tells the story of how a borderland society formed around the Strait of Gibraltar, bringing historical perspective to one of the contemporary world's critical border zones. Drawing on primary and secondary research from Spain, France, Gibraltar, and Morocco—including military intelligence files, public health reports, consular correspondence, and travel diaries—Sasha D. Pack draws out parallels and connections often invisible to national and mono-imperial histories. In conceptualizing the Strait of Gibraltar region as a borderland, Pack reconsiders a number of the region's major tensions and conflicts, including the Rif Rebellion, the Spanish Civil War, the European phase of World War II, the colonization and decolonization of Morocco, and the ongoing controversies over the exclaves of Gibraltar, Ceuta, and Melilla. Integrating these threads into a long history of the region, The Deepest Border speaks to broad questions about how sovereignty operates on the "periphery," how borders are constructed and maintained, and the enduring legacies of imperialism and colonialism.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Sasha D. Pack
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-0667-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Geopolitics Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-0667-8
Barcode:	9781503606678

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