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 hea...