Title: Permeable border : the Great Lakes Basin as transnational region, 1650-1990 /
Authors: Bukowczyk, John J., 1950-
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ; University of Calgary Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Transnationalism History Congresses.; Great Lakes Region (North America) History Congresses.; Great Lakes Watershed (North America) History Congresses.; Northern boundary of the United States History Congresses.; Canada Emigration and immigration History Congresses.; Great Lakes Region (North America) Emigration and immigration History Congresses.; Canada Boundaries United States Congresses.; United States Boundaries Canada Congresses.; Great Lakes Region (North America) Economic conditions Congresses.; Northern boundary of the United States Economic conditions Congresses.
Abstract: "Permeable Border is an interdisciplinary collaboration of three historians and a geographer (two Americans, one Canadian, and an American of Canadian descent) that traces the economic development of the Great Lakes Basin as borderland and as transnational region. It presents a regional view that transcends borders and makes vital connections between two national histories that are too often studied as wholly separate."--Jacket.
Contents: The production of history, the becoming of place / John J. Bukowczyk -- Trade, war, migration, and empire in the Great Lakes Basin, 1650-1815 / John J. Bukowczyk -- Migration, transportation, capital, and the state in the Great Lakes Basin, 1815-1890 / John J. Bukowczyk -- Leaving the "land of the second chance" : migration from Ontario to the Upper Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Nora Faires -- Structuring the permeable border : channeling and regulating cross-border traffic in labor, capital, and goods / David R. Smith -- Migration, borderlands, and national identity : directions for research / Randy William Widdis -- Region, border, and nation / John J. Bukowczyk -- Primary sources in migration studies / Randy William Widdis.