>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:59:11 -0300
>To: "Juliet J. Fall" <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Eduardo Pazera <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [Spam] Boundaries of Europe
>
>At 17:49 21/7/2005, you wrote:
>>Dear far-flung and knowledgeable colleagues,
>>
>>Can anyone help me to get my fingers on a map I once saw in a book on
>>European
>>boundaries? After many hours of haunting local libraries, I must admit to
>>being
>>utterly foxed.
>>
>>If I remember correctly, this was a map showing European state
>>boundaries, with
>>varying thicknesses of black line indicating the relative permanence of each
>>boundary. Spain/Portugal, for instance, was thicker than, say, sections of
>>France/Italy, with the thinnest lines indicating new Balkan states etc.
>>
>>This is to illustrate a section of a course on European geographies (whatever
>>that is!) that I am teaching next term here in Canada. I am eager to get some
>>feeling across of the impermanence and at times arbitrariness of European
>>boundaries. Partly, I suspect, this is as a belated response to a student who
>>asked me recently in a colloquium why I was interested in discourses on
>>European boundaries since, in his mind, all European boundaries were natural.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Juliet
>>
>>--
>>Dr Juliet J. Fall
>>Department of Geography
>>University of British Columbia
>>1984 West Mall
>>Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
>>Phone: (604) 822-9105 Fax: (604) 822-6150
>..........
>I am not very sure ( since it was a long time...) but I believe I saw this
>kind of map in
>STRAYER, J.R. The mainstream of civilization since 1789. N.York: Harcout, 197?
>
>Best wishes,
>Eduardo
>
>
>
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