
Permeable Border
The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
University of Calgary Press
Published on 30. September 2005
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-55238-216-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 border. Where tariff policy was used in the early national period to open the border for agricultural goods, growing protectionism in both countries transformed the border into a bulwark against foreign competition after the 1860s. In the twentieth century, labour migration, followed by multinational corporations, fundamentally altered the customary pairing of capital and nation to that of capital versus nation, challenging the concept of international borders as key factors in national development. In tracing the economic development of the Great Lakes Basin as borderland and as transnational region, the authors of Permeable Border : The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 have provided a regional history that transcends national borders and makes vital connections between two national histories that are too often studied as wholly separate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
graphs, maps, b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Thickness: 165 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55238-216-5 (9781552382165)
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Persons
John J. Bukowczyk is professor of history and director of the Canadian Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. Nora Faires is associate professor of history and women's studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. David R. Smith is a history instructor and academic advisor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.