Description: Two hundred years after Napoleon planned to invade England by means of a tunnel, the completion in 1994 of a fast-rail link between Great Britain and the European mainland symbolizes the disintegration of conventional state borders. While the Channel Tunnel precariously affirms the ideal of a united Europe, it also brings to the fore questions of boundaries between the first and third worlds, colonizers and colonized, and "East" and "West". Bridging Divides describes far more than an engineering feat. It charts the collision of national memory and current history, and maps the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the complicated age of globalization.

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