Bridging national borders in North America
Subtitle: transnational and comparative histories
By: Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds.
Contributors: Johnson, Benjamin Heber.; Graybill, Andrew R., 1971-
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780822346883; 9780822346999
Subjects: Borderlands -- United States -- History; Borderlands -- Canada -- History; Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: borders and their historians in North America / Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill; title: Conflict and cooperation in the making of Texas-Mexico border society, 1840/1880 / Miguel Ángel González Quiroga; title: Between race and nation : the creation of a métis borderland on the northern plains, 1850/1900 / Michel Hogue; title: Epidemics, Indians, and border-making in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest  / Jennifer Seltz; title: Divided ranges : trans-border ranches and the creation of national space along the western Mexico/U.S. border / Rachel St. John; title: The scales of salmon : diplomacy and conservation in the western Canada/U.S. borderlands / Lissa Wadewitz; title: Crossing the line : the INS and the federal regulation of the Mexican border / S. Deborah Kang; title: Caught in the gap : the transit privilege and North America's ambiguous borders / Andrea Geiger; title: The welcoming voice of the southland : American tourism across the U.S./Mexico border, 1880/1940 / Catherine Cocks; title: Projecting the in-between : cinematic representations of national borders in North America, 1908/1940 / Dominique Brégent-Heald; title: Glass curtains and storied landscapes : the fur trade, national boundaries, and historians / Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny.