Channel - England, France Construction of a Maritime Border in Eighteenth

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction; 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; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Renaud Morieux is a Lecturer in British History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Social History Society. Previously he was a Lecturer in Modern History for five years at the University of Lille, France and studied at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure. Renaud Morieux specialises in both French and British historiography and his experience of living in both countries has given him an original perspective on their intertwined histories. His research could be labelled as transnational history from below; it is an archive-based history, theoretically informed, which revises the clichés about the 'second hundred years war' which is supposed to have pitted France and Britain in the eighteenth century.

Summary

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. This is an important reassessment of the history of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Renaud Morieux, Renaud (University of Cambridge) Morieux, Morieux Renaud
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108441841
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44184-1
• No. of pages: 417
• Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, France, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, maritime history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, English Channel, C 1700 To C 1800