Engaging the Line

How the Great War Shaped the Canada–US Border

Brandon R. Dimmel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3275-5 (ISBN)

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Engaging the Line explores how the First World War forever changed the Canada-US border by examining reactions to increasingly strict security measures in six adjacent border communities.

For decades, people living in adjacent communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as "outside influences" that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in several border communities, including Windsor, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; and White Rock, British Columbia. This book brings to life the repercussions for these communities and offers readers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border by tracing the shifting relationship between citizens and the state during wartime.

Brandon R. Dimmel is a historian and writer based in London, Ontario, who has taught in the departments of history at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor. His work on the history of the Canada–US border and the First World War has been published in Histoire sociale/Social History, Journal of Borderlands Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, 49th Parallel, Public Sector Digest, and the collection of essays Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies.

Introduction

Part 1: Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan

1 "Brothers Once More": Relations between Windsor and Detroit

2 "Part and Parcel": Administering the Windsor-Detroit Border

Part 2: St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine

3 The "Ties that Bind": Relations between St. Stephen and Calais

4 "A Very Convenient Arrangement": Administering the St. Stephen–Calais Border

Part 3: White Rock, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington

5 "God Save the King": Relations between White Rock and Blaine

6 Booze and Bandits: Administering the White Rock–Blaine Border

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Canadian Military History
Zusatzinfo	28 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7748-3275-4 / 0774832754
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3275-5 / 9780774832755
Zustand	Neuware