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Title: Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees by Peter Sahlins ISBN: 0-520-07415-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating study of territories and national identities
Comment: The Pyrenees boundary between France and Spain began in 1659 as a pretty arbitrary line, but over the course of the next two centuries it was worked out as a national border locally. Sahlins studied the Cerdanya, a valley in the Pyrenees split between France and Spain, and shows how localism formed national identities that were necessary for delineating the boundary.
According to Sahlins, the changes that took place to form the France/Spain boundary were not only a formation of national identity, but also a change in the governments' views of sovereignty, moving from an idea of jurisdiction and dominion over subjects, to territorial control. He shows how policy in the Cerdanya reflected this change from jurisdiction to territory, the change from frontier land to a true boundary.
Sahlins' book is a fascinating look at what makes a nation, and a microcosmic study of the formation of the modern nation-state. His study of the Cerdanya gives the book insights, not just into governmental state-building, but also the construction of identity, the necessity of boundaries for people to define themselves in opposition to the other.
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Title: Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks ISBN: 0807853828 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson ISBN: 0860915468 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Democracy and Redistribution by Carles Boix, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Hall, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner ISBN: 0521532671 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 21 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Rogers Brubaker ISBN: 0674131789 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Waugh Abroad : The Collected Travel Writing by Nicholas Shakespeare, Evelyn Waugh ISBN: 1400040760 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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