The Struggle for the Border

by Bruce Hutchison

Book Overview

The boundary between Canada and the United States is famously described as the longest undefended border in the world. But it was not always so. In The Struggle for the Border , renowned journalist and popular historian Bruce Hutchison tells the little-known story of how that border was established. It is a story of frontier war, explorers' expeditions, Fenian raids, the burning of Washington, and of political threats and counterthreats. Hutchison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195447921
• ISBN13: 9780195447927
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 5.5"