Author : Charles K. Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015052552414
Undefended Borders
Charles K. Long
Undefended Borders
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The Defence of the Undefended Border
Richard A. Preston
Author : Richard A. Preston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780773502918
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Omhandler relationerne mellem USA og Canada og det militære beredskab, der har eksisteret omkring deres fælles grænse
The Defence of the Undefended Border
Preston
Author : Preston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773583948
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This book studies the official and unofficial thought in Canada and the United States about the problem of fighting a war in North America, especially from the British withdrawal up to the consummation of alliance in 1939.
Arc of the Medicine Line
Anthony
Author : Anthony
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553659891
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The border between Canada and the United States- the longest undefended border in the world-was laid out in many stages over more than a century, but the biggest part of the job was the long, (mostly) straight line across the prairies. On September 18, 1872, a full five years after confederation, two large teams of army surveyors-one from each country-met at the Red River on the Manitoba-Minnesota border. They were there to fix, for the first time, the precise location of the 49th Parallel between the swampy shores of the Lake of the Woods-where the border had an awkward, keyhole-shaped notch that was the source of much tension-and the summit of the continental divide in the Rockies. Over the next two years, the members of the International Boundary Commission went about the business of surveying, mapping and placing markers across nearly 900 miles of unforgiving territory. Through the work of its brilliant naturalists, the Commission created the first accurate descriptions of what was still largely terra incognita. In drawing the Medicine Line across the High Plains, the Boundary Commission defined the final shape of a new nation and ended, once and for all, the old American dream of Manifest Destiny.
A Line of Blood and Dirt
Benjamin Hoy
Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197528716
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The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.
The Undefended Border
Charles Perry Stacey
Author : Charles Perry Stacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:245917178
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Metis and the Medicine Line
Michel Hogue
Author : Michel Hogue
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621067
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Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. Michel Hogue explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West. Grounded in extensive research in U.S. and Canadian archives, Hogue's account recenters historical discussions that have typically been confined within national boundaries and illuminates how Plains Indigenous peoples like the Metis were at the center of both the unexpected accommodations and the hidden history of violence that made the "world's longest undefended border."
The Defence of the Undefended Border
Richard A. Preston
Author : Richard A. Preston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783711492
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Canada as a Borderlands Society
Roger Gibbins
Author : Roger Gibbins
Publisher : [Orono, Me.] : Borderlands
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCSD:31822006398952
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The international border which Canada and the United States share is commonly used as a symbol for the relationship between the two countries. Hence the phrase t̀he world's longest undefended border' is thought to capture the friendship that exists between the two countries, and to reflect the extensive north-south flow of people, resources, and culture which the border does little to impede. The point of this essay is not to challenge the mythology of the undefended border but, rather, to argue that while Americans and Canadians may share the same border, they share it in very different ways.
The Undefended Border ...
Stephen Vincent Benét
Author : Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:612513173
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Bootleggers and Borders
Stephen T. Moore
Author : Stephen T. Moore
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803267848
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Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930. Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values. Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight into not only the Canada-U.S. relationship but also the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.
Arc of the Medicine Line
Tony Rees
Author : Tony Rees
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 1553652789
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Today the borderland between Canada and the United States is a wide, empty sweep of wheat fields and pasture, measured by a grid of gravel roads that sees little traffic and few people who do not make their lives there. It has been much this way for more than a century now, but there was a moment when the great silence shrouding this place was broken, and that moment changed it forever. Arc of the Medicine Line is a compelling narrative of that moment--the completion of the official border between the United States and Canada in 1874. In late July of 1874, the Sweetgrass Hills sheltered the greatest accumulation of scientists, teamsters, scouts, cooks, and soldiers to be seen in this part of the world before the coming of the railways. The men of the boundary commissions--American, British, and Canadian--established an astronomical station and the last of their supply depots as they prepared to draw the Medicine Line across the final hundred of the nearly nine hundred miles between Manitoba's Lake of the Woods and the Continental Divide. In the brief weeks the surveyors and soldiers spent in Milk River country, they witnessed, and played a singular part in, the beginning of the end for the open West. That hot, dry summer of 1874 marked the outside world's final assault on this last frontier.
Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World
Paul Ganster,David E. Lorey
Author : Paul Ganster,David E. Lorey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 084205104X
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Borders represent an intriguing paradox as globalization continues to leap barriers at a vigorous pace, merging economies and cultures through world trade, economic integration, the mass media, the Internet, and increasingly mobile populations. At the same time, the political boundaries separating peoples remain pervasive and problematic. Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World offers a carefully selected group of readings to enhance student understanding of the complexities of border regions. The reader brings together key writings on the histories of borders, their social development, their politics, and the daily life that characterizes them. The authors place their analyses of these issues in an international context, stressing how borders influence, and how they are influenced by, global processes. The selections provide a window on our current understanding of human interactions at and along national and interethnic boundaries, interactions that will characterize borders and border politics for decades to come. Drawing on a worldwide set of case studies, this text divides border issues into seven thematic categories: borders as barriers; borders, migrants, and refugees; borders and partitioned groups; borders, perceptions and culture; borders and the environment; borders, goods, and services; and maritime and space borders. An excellent text for courses on boundaries, ethnicity, and international relations, this collection of cutting-edge information and analysis on borders and border politics in the context of ongoing globalization will shed light both upon international and subnational boundaries and upon the unfolding processes of globalization.
The Border
James Laxer
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385672900
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Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what Canada means to the giant to our south. If good fences make good neighbours, do we have the sort of fence that will allow us to maintain neighbourly relations with the world’s only superpower? In The Border, well-known political scientist and journalist James Laxer explores this question by taking the reader on a compelling 5000-mile journey into culture, politics, history, and the future of Canadian sovereignty. Long ignored (or celebrated) as “the world’s longest undefended border,” the line between us and the US is now a stress point. The attacks on the World Trade Center announced to the world that North America is no longer a quiet neighbourhood and made our relationship with the US one of the most pressing questions facing Canadians. The porousness of the border is sure to be more problematic as the world becomes more troubled. Canadian officials complain of American pornography, drugs, untaxed cigarettes and, especially, guns moving northwards. For their part, the FBI and US Customs Service blame Canada for the infiltration of Chinese gangs smuggling immigrants and, more urgently, third-world terrorist cells based north of the border. Drawing deeply from history and anecdote, Laxer shows that for all our neighbourly good will, the Canada-US border has been contentious since the American War of Independence. In the mid-1800s the Americans tried to seize the west coast up to the 54th parallel. On the other hand, until 1931 the Canadian Army’s “Defence Scheme Number One” was to launch a surprise attack on the US with Mexico and Japan as allies. But beyond the fraught politics of the border, Laxer discovers another legacy as well. Travelling the country from Campobello island in the east to Richmond BC in the west all the way up to the Alaska panhandle in the north, Laxer meets people who live within a stone’s throw of the foreigners on the other side, and who share with him tales of friendship and rivalry, smuggling and trade that have shaped the character of their communities.
Permeable Borders
Paul Otto,Susanne Berthier-Foglar
Author : Paul Otto,Susanne Berthier-Foglar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204438
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If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.S. history, today it is arguably the border that best encapsulates the American experience, as xenophobia, economic inequality, and resurgent nationalism continue to fuel conditions of division and limitation. This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. Together, these essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.