Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has been shaped by the people, goods, and capital crossing and recrossing the U.S.-Canadian border.\ During the past three centuries, the region has been buffeted by efforts to benefit from or defeat economic and political integration and by the politics of imposing, tightening, or relaxing the bisecting international...
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This text examines the history of the Great Lakes Basin in relation to its importance as a place of social, economic, and political interaction between the United States and Canada.
1The production of history, the becoming of place12Trade, war, migration, and empire in the Great Lakes basin, 1650-1815103Migration, transportation, capital, and the state in the Great Lakes basin, 1815-1890294Leaving the "land of the second chance" : migration from Ontario to the upper Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries785Structuring the permeable border : channeling and regulating cross-border traffic in labor, capital, and goods1206Migration, borderlands, and national identity : directions for research1527Region, border, and nation175AppPrimary sources in migration studies183
\ From the Publisher“Permeable Border offers a fresh, thought-provoking inquiry into the history of U.S.-Canadian relations. Examining economic development, migration, and national policies, these essays throw light on the changing patterns of cross-border interaction in the Great Lakes region since 1800. This book will be essential reading for scholars interested in an integrated view of North American history, and makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates over globalization.\ --Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut\ \
