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The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

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Description for The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) Paperback. Provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and is particularly instructive as salmon conservation practices increasingly approximate those of the pre-contact Native past Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 illustrations, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1QSP; JFSL9; KNAF; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different eff ects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea – which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca – drew social and cultural borders around salmon fishing locations and found ways to administer the resource in a sustainable way. Nineteenth-century Euro-Americans, who drew the Anglo-American border along the forty-ninth parallel, took a very different approach and ignored the ... Read more

The Nature of Borders is about the ecological eff ects of imposing cultural and political borders on this critical West Coast salmon fishery. This transnational history provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and is particularly instructive as salmon conservation practices increasingly approximate those of the pre-contact Indigenous past. The Nature of Borders reorients borderland studies toward the Canada–US border and also provides a new view of how borders influenced fishing practices and related management efforts over time.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Series
Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295991825
SKU
V9780295991825
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About Lissa K. Wadewitz
Lissa K. Wadewitz is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Reviews for The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
At the risk of straining the metaphor, her book explores uncharted waters and does so masterfully.  Wadewitz has just set the bar incredibly high for future historians who also want to turn their backs to the land and gaze out to those coastal waters.
Sheila M. McManus, University of Lethbridge
H-Borderlands, H-Net Reviews, September 2012

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