E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Johnson / Graybill / Joseph Bridging National Borders in North America
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9271-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Transnational and Comparative Histories
E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9271-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Borders and Their Historians in North America / Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill 1
Part I. Peoples In Between
Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, 1840–1880 / Miguel Ángel González Quiroga 33
Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains, 1850–1900 / Michel Hogue 59
Part II. Environmental Control and State-Making
Epidemics, Indians, and Border-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest / Jennifer Seltz 91
Divided Ranges: Trans-border Ranches and the Creation of National Space along the Western Mexico-U.S. Border / Rachel St. John 116
The Scales of Salmon: Diplomacy and Conservation in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands / Lissa Wadewitz 141
Part III. Border Enforcement and Contestation
Crossing the Line: The INS and the Federal Regulation of the Mexican Border / S. Deborah Kang 167
Caught in the Gap: The Transit Privilege and North America's Ambiguous Borders / Andrea Geiger 199
Part IV. Border Representation and National Identity
The Welcoming Voice of the Southland: American Tourism across the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880–1940 / Catherine Cocks 225
Projecting the In-Between: Cinematic Representations of National Borders in North America, 1908–1940 / Dominique Brégent-Heald 249
Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: The Fur Trade, National Boundaries, and Historians / Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny 275
Bibliography 303
Contributors 351
Index 353