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Author : Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (612 download)
Download or read book The Undefended Border ... written by Stephen Vincent Benét and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1553659899
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Arc of the Medicine Line written by Anthony and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197528716
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book A Line of Blood and Dirt written by Benjamin Hoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Abby Paige
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The undefended border written by Abby Paige and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Preston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583947
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Defence of the Undefended Border written by Preston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1977-12-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Richard A. Preston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773502912
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Defence of the Undefended Border written by Richard A. Preston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1977 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omhandler relationerne mellem USA og Canada og det militære beredskab, der har eksisteret omkring deres fælles grænse
Author : Charles Perry Stacey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (245 download)
Download or read book The Undefended Border written by Charles Perry Stacey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783711492
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Defence of the Undefended Border written by Richard A. Preston and published by . This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Knowlton Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kennedy and Diefenbaker written by Knowlton Nash and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michel Hogue
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469621061
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Metis and the Medicine Line written by Michel Hogue and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : Tony Rees
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 9781553652786
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Arc of the Medicine Line written by Tony Rees and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Charles K. Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Undefended Borders written by Charles K. Long and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 038567290X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Border written by James Laxer and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brandon R. Dimmel
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774832770
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Engaging the Line written by Brandon R. Dimmel and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, people living in communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as “outside influences” that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in six communities and offers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border.
Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202366494
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (664 download)
Download or read book How Claims Spread written by Joel Best and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses. This unique collection, assembled from new research by an international group of social problems scholars, will fill a gap in undergraduate and graduate level studies in the constructionist analyses of social problems, as well as in political science, public policy, and criminology. Claims concerning one social problem often influence those about another: claimsmakers borrow rhetoric and tactics from one another. In some cases, experienced claimsmakers join efforts to call attention to other social problems: compelling images (e.g., the threatened child or random violence) link claims about different problems and reactions to one set of claims. These case studies describe very different processes, ranging from deliberate attempts to disseminate social problem claims to developments that were more inadvertent, from successes in which social problem constructions spread to new countries to failures in which claims were sown, but failed to take root. They are intended to suggest that the diffusion of social problems is neither simple nor automatic. Joel Best is professor and chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has served as an editorial advisor for Aldine that has produced fifty titles.
Author : Roger Gibbins
Publisher : [Orono, Me.] : Borderlands
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Canada as a Borderlands Society written by Roger Gibbins and published by [Orono, Me.] : Borderlands. This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Derek Lundy
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307398633
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Borderlands written by Derek Lundy and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions - but also its virtues - irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the 'other' whom they admire, or fear, or hold in contempt, and know little about. September 11, 2001, changed the United States utterly and nothing more so than the physical reality, the perception - and the meaning - of its borders." -from Borderlands Derek Lundy turns sixty at the end of a year in which three good friends have died. He feels the need to do something radical, and sets out on his motorcycle - a Kawasaki KLR 650 cc single-cylinder "thumper," which he describes as "unpretentious" and also "butt-ugly." Fascinated by the United States' post-9/11 passion for security, particularly on its two international borders, he chooses to investigate. He takes a firsthand look at both borders. The U.S.-Mexican borderlands, often disorderly and violent, operate according to their own ad hoc system of rules and conventions, and are distinct in many ways from the two countries the border divides. When security trumps trade, the economic well-being of both countries is threatened, and the upside is difficult to determine. American policy makers think the issues of drugs and illegals are ample reason to keep building fences to keep Mexicans out, even with no evidence that fences work or are anything but cruel. Mexicans' cheap labour keeps the wheels turning in the U.S. economy yet they are resented for trying to get into the country illegally (or legally). More people have died trying to cross this border than in the 9/11 attacks. At almost 9,000 kilometres, the U.S. border with Canada is the longest in the world. The northern border divides the planet's two biggest trading partners, and that relationship demands the fast, easy flow of goods and services in both directions. Since the events of 9/11, however, the United States has slowly and steadily choked the flux of trade: "just-in-time" parts shipments are in jeopardy; trucks must wait for inspection and clearance; people must be questioned. The border is "thickening." In prose that is compelling, impressive and at times frightening, Derek Lundy's incredible journey is illuminating enough to change minds, as great writing can sometimes do.
