Part I. The Border Invented
1. The impossibility of an island : before the Channel was a sea
2. When the sea had no name
Part II. The Border Imposed
3. Defending the military frontier
4. Who owns the Channel? : the overlap of legal rights
5. The fight for natural resources
Part III. Transgressing the Border
6. The fisherman : "friend of all nations"?
7. The game of identities : fraud and smuggling
8. Crossing the Channel.