My Neighbour over the Border
Tales of towns and cities separated by borders and how they get along
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2021
The Conrad Press (Verlag)
978-1-914913-08-2 (ISBN)
The Conrad Press (Verlag)
978-1-914913-08-2 (ISBN)
Non-fiction book about international borders between neighbours
How do towns and cities divided by the harsh reality of an international border manage to get on with each other when their closest neighbour lives just next door, but in another country? Are they thriving or surviving? Utterly dependent on each other or with backs turned, socially and economically?
We visit towns and cities that you may not have heard of or know little about. Places like distant Blagoveshchensk and Heihe, Narva and Ivangorod and Gorlitz and Zgorzelec. But also the better known Nicosia, Europe’s only divided capital, Detroit with its Canadian neighbour Windsor, Geneva and its French suburb Annemasse and the cities of Sarajevo and Mostar, divided not by international borders but ethnic divisions baked into everyday life.
This is a fascinating and well-researched study of thirty-_six towns and cities from across the world that are separated by borders. Paul Doe delves into the way in which these divisions came about and how the separated towns and cities manage to get along, or not, buffeted as they are by geopolitics, ethnic differences and historical animosities.
How do towns and cities divided by the harsh reality of an international border manage to get on with each other when their closest neighbour lives just next door, but in another country? Are they thriving or surviving? Utterly dependent on each other or with backs turned, socially and economically?
We visit towns and cities that you may not have heard of or know little about. Places like distant Blagoveshchensk and Heihe, Narva and Ivangorod and Gorlitz and Zgorzelec. But also the better known Nicosia, Europe’s only divided capital, Detroit with its Canadian neighbour Windsor, Geneva and its French suburb Annemasse and the cities of Sarajevo and Mostar, divided not by international borders but ethnic divisions baked into everyday life.
This is a fascinating and well-researched study of thirty-_six towns and cities from across the world that are separated by borders. Paul Doe delves into the way in which these divisions came about and how the separated towns and cities manage to get along, or not, buffeted as they are by geopolitics, ethnic differences and historical animosities.
This is Paul Doe’s second book. His first was ‘Dividing up the World; the true story of our international borders and why they are where they are’, also published by The Conrad Press. He was awarded a MBE in 2016.
Chapter One It all stops at the border5
Chapter Two A borderless world33
Chapter Three Life along the hardest of borders65
Chapter Four Doing business on the far frontier97
Chapter Five Rivalry over the border130
Chapter Six Torn into two164
Chapter Seven Living apart together194
Chapter Eight The towns ‘doomed to each other’225
Chapter Nine Invisible borders257
Bibliography290
Acknowledgements304
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 black and white maps |
Verlagsort | Canterbury |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
ISBN-10 | 1-914913-08-6 / 1914913086 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-914913-08-2 / 9781914913082 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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