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100 1  Morieux, Renaud, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008098441
245 14 The Channel : |bEngland, France and the construction of a maritime border in the eighteenth century / |cRenaud Morieux.
264  1 Cambridge : |bCambridge University Press, |c2016.
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490 1  Cambridge social and cultural histories ; |v23
500    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016).
505 0  Part I. The Border Invented -- 1. The impossibility of an island : before the Channel was a sea -- 2. When the sea had no name -- Part II. The Border Imposed -- 3. Defending the military frontier -- 4. Who owns the Channel? : the overlap of legal rights -- 5. The fight for natural resources -- Part III. Transgressing the Border -- 6. The fisherman : "friend of all nations"? -- 7. The game of identities : fraud and smuggling -- 8. Crossing the Channel.
520    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.
651  0 English Channel |xHistory |y18th century.
651  0 England |xRelations |zFrance.
651  0 France |xRelations |zEngland.
650  0 Maritime boundaries |zEngland |xHistory |y18th century.
650  0 Maritime boundaries |zFrance |xHistory |y18th century.
650  0 Acculturation |zEngland |xHistory |y18th century.
650  0 Acculturation |zFrance |xHistory |y18th century.
730 0  Cambridge University Press. |pHistory.
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830  0 Cambridge social and cultural histories ; |v23.