Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Note on Translations and Spelling xv
7. Maps xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. Part One. From Shatter Zone to Borderland, 1850–1900
10. 1. Inventing a Border 21
11. 2. Crisis in the Western Channel, 1855–1864 41
12. 3. Imperial Borders 61
13. 4. Tourists and Settlers 89
14. Part Two. Between Borderland and Empire, 1900–1939
15. 5. Slipstream Potentates 117
16. 6. Illusory Neutrality, 1914–1918 139
17. 7. War on the Colonial Borderland, 1919–1926 155
18. 8. A New Convivencia 177
19. 9. The Blighted Republic 195
20. Part Three. Toward a New Paradigm, 1936–1970
21. 10. The New (Old) Order, 1936–1942 215
22. 11. A Changing Matrix, 1942–1963 243
23. 12. The End of a Modern Borderland 265
24. Notes 281
25. Index 333