Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies

by John M. Findlay and Kenneth S. Coates

Book Overview

The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even grouped together as a distinct political and economic unit, called the "Oregon Country" by Americans and the "Columbia Department" of the Hudson's Bay Company by the British.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295982535
• ISBN13: 9780295982533
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher