| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019) |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- Gibraltar, Strait of, Region -- History
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Exclaves -- Western Mediterranean -- History
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Borderlands -- Spain -- History
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Borderlands -- Morocco -- History
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HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.
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Borderlands
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Boundaries
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Exclaves
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Geopolitics
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| SUBJECT |
Gibraltar -- Boundaries -- History
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Spain -- Boundaries -- History
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Morocco -- Boundaries -- History
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| Subject |
Gibraltar
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Mediterranean Region -- Western Mediterranean
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Morocco
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018037749 |
| ISBN |
1503607534 |
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9781503607538 |
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