Des frontières à l’origine d’identités montagnardes éclatées. L’exemple des anciens États de Piémont‑Savoie
At the height of the western Alps, the House of Savoy federate during modern times a multifarious territory – Savoy, Nice, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta – in which are juxtaposed and expressed by Highlander identities ruptured because of the distinctives linguistic, cultural and politics. These interna...
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| Language: | English |
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UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)
2024-08-01
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| Series: | Les Cahiers de Framespa |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/17472 |
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| Summary: | At the height of the western Alps, the House of Savoy federate during modern times a multifarious territory – Savoy, Nice, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta – in which are juxtaposed and expressed by Highlander identities ruptured because of the distinctives linguistic, cultural and politics. These internals fragmentations make it a “border state” which, on a continental scale, takes the form of a “border state” squeezed between two powerful neighbours vying for hegemony: France and the Habsburgs, masters of Milan. Embodied in the concept of Piedmont‑Savoy, this dual dimension of the border means that the Alpine region can be seen as a rich laboratory for political experimentation, conducive to the study of various border effects – wars, boundary conferences and mental representations of old boundaries – conditioned by regional dynamics and the vagaries of European geopolitics. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-4761 |