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Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin As Transnational Region, 1650-1990
John J Bukowczyk
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Description for Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin As Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Hardcover. From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through 19th-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 border. This work traces the economic development of the area as borderland and as transnational region. Num Pages: 350 pages, 13 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 1KBCO; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822942610
SKU
V9780822942610
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99-16
About John J Bukowczyk
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. Randy William Widdis is professor of geography ... Read more
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