Title The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource (420 pages).
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Series	Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
	Cambridge social and cultural histories.
Contents	Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The border invented; Part II The border imposed; Part III Transgressing the border; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; 1 The impossibility of an island: before the Channel was a sea; 2 When the sea had no name; 3 Defending the military frontier; 4 Who owns the Channel? The overlap of legal rights; 5 The fight for natural resources; 6 The fisherman: 'friend of all nations'?; 7 The game of identities: fraud and smuggling; 8 Crossing the Channel.
Summary	The English Channel was a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-395) and index.
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Subject	Maritime boundaries -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Maritime boundaries.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Maritime boundaries -- France -- History -- 18th century.
	France.
	Acculturation -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Acculturation.
	Acculturation -- France -- History -- 18th century.
	English Channel -- History -- 18th century.
	England -- Relations -- France.
	France -- Relations -- England.
	SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
	TRAVEL -- Budget.
	TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
	TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
	Relations.
	TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
	International relations.
	Atlantic Ocean -- English Channel.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Morieux, Renaud. Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2016 9781107039490
ISBN	9781316491058
	1316491056
	9781139600385
	1139600389
	9781316491935
	1316491935
	9781107039490 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	1107039495 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

Title The Channel : England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century.

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