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; labor 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 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.
#475235 in Books Duke University Press Books 2005-02-04 2005-02-04Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .96 x 6.00l; 1.17 #File Name: 0822336138378 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandBy funner thingsThis book contains information about Salem; but also other instances of witchcraft. Apparently; there were relatively few instances when the populace strongly suspected the presence of witches. There were enough instances over time that demonstrated that witchcraft was an ongoing concern. However; the outbreaks were isolated and few were executed--much better situation than fear of witches in Europe; especially Germany. The book also provides the reader with a clear sense of living in New England. Life was much harder than depicted in stories and pictures of Puritans.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. the book's excellent and useful to any student of the Anglo-American witch ...By JosephThis is the edition of this book that I purchased; although I've also posted a review on a more recent edition of the book since that's most likely to be seen (I think). In short: the book's excellent and useful to any student of the Anglo-American witch trials who would like to go beyond Salem. My only complaint is that the font choice is poor and the book's readability suffers a bit.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great source for early 17th century witchcraft in New EnglandBy Jo Ann ButlerThis book contains the most complete transcripts of early 17th century New England witchcraft investigations I've seen; and is invaluable as I work on a novel about the 1662 Connecticut witchcraft outbreak. However; it is not meant to be a complete investigation of the 1692 Salem outbreak and contains little about that episode; but informs readers where that information may be found.
