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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814109003321

Titolo

New England and the Maritime provinces : connections and comparisons / / edited by Stephen J. Hornsby, John G. Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86332-0

9786612863325

0-7735-7266-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History ; ; 49

Altri autori (Persone)

HornsbyStephen <1956->

ReidJohn G. <1948->

Disciplina

971.505

Soggetti

Maritime Provinces History

New England History

Maritime Provinces Relations New England

New England Relations Maritime Provinces

Provinces maritimes Histoire

Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire

Provinces maritimes Relations Nouvelle-Angleterre

Nouvelle-Angleterre Relations Provinces maritimes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-406) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula""; ""3 Spaces of Power in the Early Modern Northeast""; ""4 Passamaquoddy Identity and the Marshall Decision""; ""5 New England Soldiers in the St John River Valley, 1758-1760""; ""6 Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French""; ""7 Comparative Economic Advantage: Nova Scotia and New England, 1720-1860's""; ""8 Humbert's Paradox: The Global Context of Smuggling in the Bay of Fundy""

""9 Variations on a Borderlands Theme: Nativism and Collective Violence in Northeastern North America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century""""10 Nova Scotia and the American Presence: Seeking



Connections Without Conquest, 1848-1854""; ""11 The Command of Money in Shaws' Borderlands, 1859-1887""; ""12 Re-Examining the Economic Underdevelopment of the Maritime Provinces: A Case Study of Portland, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick""; ""13 Maine-Maritimes Folklore: The Lumberwoods Connection""

""14 Canadian and American Policy Making in Response to the First Multi-Species Fisheries Crisis in the Greater Gulf of Maine Region""""15 More Buck for the Bang: Sporting and the Ideology of Fish and Game Management in Northern New England and the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1900""; ""16 The ""Boston States"": Region, Gender, and Maritime Out-Migration, 1870-1930""; ""17 Borderlands, Baselines, and Big Game: Conceptualizing the Northeast as a Sporting Region""; ""18 The Epic of Greater North America: Themes and Periodization in North American History""

""19 Peeping Through the Cracks: Seeking Connections, Comparisons, and Understanding in Unstable Space""""Notes""; ""Index"";

Sommario/riassunto

A significant addition to the growing field of transnational studies, New England and the Maritime Provinces reveals a relationship that, although sometimes troubled, retains its importance in the current era of globalization.