Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region 1650-1990

by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822942615
• ISBN13: 9780822942610
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"