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Title The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests : essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel / edited by Sterling Evans
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Duty-free : an introduction to the practice of regional history along the forty-ninth parallel / Thomas D. Isern and R. Bruce Shepard -- pt. 1. Defining the region, defining the border. The case for cross-national and comparative history : the Northwestern Plains as bioregion / Theodore Binnema -- The Pacific Coast borderlands and frontier / Leonard J. Evenden and Daniel E. Turbeville III -- Conceptual and practical boundaries : West Coast Indians/First Nations on the border of contagion in the post-9/11 era / Bruce Granville Miller -- pt. 2. Colonizing the borderlands with trails, the law, and ranching. The trail to the North in Whoop-Up Country / Paul F. Sharp -- Above the blue line : policing the frontier in the Canadian and American West, 1870-1900 / Marian C. McKenna -- Does the border matter? : cattle ranching and the forty-ninth parallel / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov -- "Their own country" : race, gender, landscape, and colonization around the forty-ninth parallel, 1862-1900 / Sheila McManus -- pt. 3. Seeking sanctuary on both sides of the line. The border, the buffalo, and the Métis of Montana / Gerhard J. Ens -- Crossing the line : race, nationality, and the deportation of the "Canadian" Crees in the Canada-U.S. borderlands, 1890-1900 / Michel Hogue -- Charles Ora Card and Mormon settlement on the Northwestern Plains borderlands / Peter S. Morris -- pt. 4. Farming, industry, and labor interactions in the borderlands. The twine line : Mexican henequen, U.S.-Canadian relations, and binder twine in the Northern Plains and Prairie Provinces, 1890-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Hoboes across the border : itinerant cross-border laborers between Montana and Western Canada / Evelyne Stitt Pickett -- "Nature's garden and a possible utopia" : farming for fruit and industrious men in the transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895-1914 / Jason Patrick Bennett -- pt. 5. Crossing the medicine line in the twentieth century. Refugees from Volstead : cross-boundary tourism in the Northwest during Prohibition / Stephen T. Moore -- Hoods across the border : the Ku Klux Klan and the Far Right in the American and Canadian Wests / Eckard V. Toy, Jr. -- Fugitives from injustice : Vietnam War draft dodgers and deserters in British Columbia / Renée G. Kasinsky -- Addendum : Seeking refuge for medical marijuana use in the early twenty-first century / Sterling Evans -- pt. 6. Natural resources, conservation, and environmental issues in the borderlands. Fishing the line : political boundaries and border fluidity in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, 1880-1930s / Lissa Wadewitz -- "The geology recognizes no boundaries" : shifting borders in Waterton Lakes National Park / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Whoa! Canada : environmental issues and activism along the Alberta-Montana border / Todd Wilkinson -- Afterword : Comparing Western borderlands and their future study / Sterling Evans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Regionalism -- Northern boundary of the United States
Regionalism -- West (U.S.)
Regionalism -- Canada, Western
Group identity -- West (U.S.)
Group identity -- Canada, Western
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Group identity
Regionalism
International relations
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Grenze
Grenzgebiet
Außenpolitik
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Canada
Canada -- Relations -- United States
Northern boundary of the United States -- Social conditions
West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Canada, Western -- Social conditions
Subject Canada
Western Canada
United States
United States -- Northern boundary of the United States
West United States
Kanada
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Evans, Sterling, 1959-
ISBN 0803256345
9780803256347