The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland
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.

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The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland
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.

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The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland

The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland

by Sasha D. Pack
The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland

The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland

by Sasha D. Pack

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781503606678
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01/08/2019
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sasha D. Pack is Associate Professor of History at the Universityat Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain (2006), which was awarded the Best First Book Prize by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction:
1. Inventing a Border: British Gibraltar and the Spanish Campo
2. Crisis in the Western Channel, 1855–1864
3. Imperial Borders
4. Tourists and Settlers
5. Slipstream Potentates
6. Illusory Neutrality, 1914–1918
7. War on the Colonial Borderland, 1919–1926
8. A New Convivencia
9. The Blighted Republic
10. The New (Old) Order, 1936–1942
11. A Changing Matrix, 1942–1963
12. The End of a Modern Borderland
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