At the Border

Margins and Peripheries in Modern France

Editor(s) Henrice Altink,Sharif Gemie

Language: English

Genre(s): History

Series: French and Francophone Studies

  • December 2007 · 192 pages

  • · Hardback - 9780708320761

Through a discussion of border identities, this book presents a balance-sheet of key developments in modern French society and culture in the context of globalization. It seeks to re-define and re-consider the notion of the border in respect of the identification of a variety of visible and invisible 'border' situations.

Author(s): Henrice Altink

Dr. S. Gemie is Reader in History at the University of Glamorgan. He is an authority on modern France and Spain and author of the UWP titles Breton Identity 1750-1950 and Galicia (Histories of Europe Series). Dr. H. Altink is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York.

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Author(s): Sharif Gemie

Sharif Gemie is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan Wales, and is currently researching travel, refugees and Empire.

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