Bridging National Borders in North America

Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill (Eds.)

Description

Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have generally worked in isolation from one another. A timely and important addition to borderlands history, Bridging National Borders in North America initiates a conversation between scholars of the continent's northern and southern borderlands. The historians in this collection examine borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Some consider the U.S.-Canada border, others concentrate on the U.S.-Mexico border, and still others take both regions into account.The contributors engage topics such as how mixed-race groups living on the peripheries of national societies dealt with the creation of borders in the nineteenth century, how medical inspections and public-health knowledge came to be used to differentiate among bodies, and how practices designed to channel livestock and prevent cattle smuggling became the model for regulating the movement of narcotics and undocumented people. They explore the ways that U.S. immigration authorities mediated between the desires for unimpeded boundary-crossings for day laborers, tourists, casual visitors, and businessmen, and the restrictions imposed by measures such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the 1924 Immigration Act. Turning to the realm of culture, they analyze the history of tourist travel to Mexico from the United States and depictions of the borderlands in early-twentieth-century Hollywood movies. The concluding essay suggests that historians have obscured non-national forms of territoriality and community that preceded the creation of national borders and sometimes persisted afterwards. This collection signals new directions for continental dialogue about issues such as state-building, national expansion, territoriality, and migration.Contributors: Dominique Bregent-Heald, Catherine Cocks, Andrea Geiger, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Quiroga, Andrew R. Graybill, Michel Hogue, Benjamin H. Johnson, S. Deborah Kang, Carolyn Podruchny, Bethel Saler, Jennifer Seltz, Rachel St. John, Lissa WadewitzPublished in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• México
• Canadá
• Historical geography
• 20th century
• History of the Americas
• Canada
• États-Unis
• Mexico
• Migration

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822392712
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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ToDavidJ.Weber

Mentor,friend,and intrepidbordercrosser

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Epidemics, Indians, and Border-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest Jennifer Seltz

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Introduction: Borders and Their Historians in North America Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill

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C O N T E N T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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PARTI

Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains Michel Hogue

PARTII

EnvironmentalControlandState-Making

Acknowledgments

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, 1840–1880 Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga

Divided Ranges: Trans-border Ranches and the Creation of National Space along the Western Mexico–U.S. Border Rachel St. John

The Scales of Salmon: Diplomacy and Conservation in the Western Canada–U.S. Borderlands Lissa Wadewitz

PeoplesInBetween

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Contributors

Index

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PARTIII

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Bibliography

Caught in the Gap: The Transit Privilege and North America’s Ambiguous Borders Andrea Geiger

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PARTIV

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The Welcoming Voice of the Southland: American Tourism across the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880–1940 Catherine Cocks

Projecting the In-Between: Cinematic Representations of Borderlands and Borders in North America, 1908–1940 Dominique Brégent-Heald

Crossing the Line: Theinsand the Federal Regulation of the Mexican Border S. Deborah Kang

BorderEnforcementandContestation

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BorderRepresentationandNationalIdentity

C ONT E NT S

Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: The Fur Trade, National Boundaries, and Historians Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

This volume began as a conversation at Southern Methodist University in the spring of 2005. Since that time, we have accrued extensive personal and professional debts, which we would like to acknowledge. Atsmu’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies, we thank associate director Sherry Smith, as well as Andrea Boardman and Ruth Ann El- more, who helped at every step of the way, and never more indispensably than at the ‘‘Bridging National Borders’’ symposium held atsmuin March 2007. Thanks also to the graduate students and university sta√ who as- sisted in making that event run so smoothly; and to Johnny Faragher, whose comments in Dallas pushed us to refine (and in some cases to reject) our assumptions and arguments. A generous Canadian Studies Conference Grant from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., helped o√set our meeting expenses. ‘‘Bridging National Borders’’ marked the first time that the Clements Center had partnered with another institution in hosting its annual sym- posium, and we could not have been more fortunate than to work with the Department of History at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Department chair John Craig was a most gracious host, and Nicholas Guyatt (now at the University of York in England) kept the con- ference moving (and the audience chuckling) in his role as emcee. Leo Shin, of the University of British Columbia, andsfu’s Alec Dawson pro- vided excellent commentary on the papers. Jay Taylor deserves special acknowledgment for his fundraising brilliance, enthusiasm, and unflag- ging support, without which our September 2006 gathering in Vancou- ver would not have been possible. Several scholars in various corners of North America improved the project with their careful readings of the manuscript and suggestions for