At the Border
Margins and Peripheries in Modern France
Distributed for University of Wales Press
192 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2008
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Table of Contents

Contents
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
A note on the texts
Introduction: Borders: ancient, modern and postmodern: definitions and debates
Henrice Altink and Sharif Gemie
Part I: France’s Geographic Borders
Chapter one: France as periphery? The challenge of change
Alistair Cole
Chapter two: The making of the eastern frontier: the French-German border, 1815-70
François Roth
Chapter three: Algeria and the Mediterranean frontier: a hostile horizon?
Marianne Durand
Part II: Between the Centre and the Margin: the French Regions
Chapter four: From the other side of the mirror: the French-German border in landscape and memory: Lorraine, 1871-1914
Didier Francfort
Chapter five: Between borders: the remembrance practices of Spanish exiles in the south-west of France
Scott Soo
Chapter six: Otherness, invisible borders and representations of identity in the Midi, 1920s
Laure Teulières
Part III: The Margins Within
Chapter seven: Insecurity and no-go areas
Cathérine Levy
Chapter eight: The Maghrebian community in France: defining the borders
Dawn Marley and Judith Broadbridge
Chapter nine: Solidarity in pariahdom? Oppression and self-oppression in gay representations in France
Owen Heathcote
Index
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