Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

European Union and the deconstruction of the Rhineland frontier /

Loriaux, Michael Maurice.

European Union and the deconstruction of the Rhineland frontier / Michael Loriaux. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xi, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myth and geopolitics of the Rhineland frontier -- Trans Rhenum incolunt : the inauguration of the Rhineland frontier -- "A principality of priests" : the inauguration of Europe -- Anonymity and prosperity -- The great antecedent cracking -- Coups de force : Ossian and the département -- Wacht am Rhein : the Ossianic fracture of Rhineland space -- Carolingian discourse and Rhineland pacification -- Spatial representation and the political imagination.

9780521880848 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780521707077 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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European Union--Membership.


Social integration--European Union countries.
Geopolitics--European Union countries.


European Union countries--Economic integration.
European Union countries--Relations.
European Economic Community countries.

D1065.E85 / L67 2008

943/.4088