Bridging national borders in North America : transnational and comparative histories / Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Benjamin Heber.

Graybill, Andrew R., 1971-

Series:

American encounters/global interactions.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--United States--History.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Canada--History.

Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays by historians of the Canadian-U.S. border region and those focused on the Mexican-U.S. border, examining borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth.

Contents:

Introduction: borders and their historians in North America / Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill

Conflict and cooperation in the making of Texas-Mexico border society, 1840/1880 / Miguel Angel Gonzalez Quiroga

Between race and nation : the creation of a metis borderland on the northern plains / Michel Hogue

Epidemics, Indians, and border-making in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest / Jennifer Seltz

Divided ranges : trans-border ranches and the creation of national space along the western Mexico/U.S. border / Rachel St. John

The scales of salmon : diplomacy and conservation in the western Canada/U.S. borderlands / Lissa Wadewitz

Crossing the line : the INS and the federal regulation of the Mexican border / S. Deborah Kang

Caught in the gap : the transit privilege and North America's ambiguous borders / Andrea Geiger

The welcoming voice of the southland : American tourism across the U.S./Mexico border, 1880/1940 / Catherine Cocks

Projecting the in-between : cinematic representations of borderlands and borders in North America, 1908/1940 / Dominique Bregent-Heald

Glass curtains and storied landscapes : the fur trade, national boundaries, and historians / Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613065568

9781283065566

1283065568

9780822392712

0822392712

OCLC:

645086396