Permeable border [[electronic resource] ] : the Great Lakes Basin as transnational region, 1650-1990 / / John J. Bukowczyk ... [et al.]

• Autore: Bukowczyk John J.
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press; Calgary, Alta., : University of Calgary Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 298 p. ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 977
• Soggetto topico: Transnationalism - History
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Altri autori: BukowczykJohn J. <1950->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Great Lakes states 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 against foreign competition after the 1860s. In the twentieth century, labour migration, followed by multinational corporations, fundamentally altered the customary pairing of capital and nation to that of capital versus nation, challenging the concept of international borders as key factors in national development. In tracing the economic development of the Great Lakes Basin as borderland and as transnational region, the authors of Permeable Border : The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 have provided a regional history that transcends national borders and makes vital connections between two national histories that are too often studied as wholly separate.
• Titolo autorizzato: Permeable border
• ISBN: 1-280-94650-4; 9786610946501; 1-55238-427-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248237203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno