Permeable border : the Great Lakes Basin as transnational region, 1650-1990 / John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, Randy William Widdis.

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

The production of history, the becoming of place / John J. Bukowczyk -- Trade, war, migration, and empire in the Great Lakes Basin, 1650-1815 / John J. Bukowczyk -- Migration, transportation, capital, and the state in the Great Lakes Basin, 1815-1890 / John J. Bukowczyk -- Leaving the "land of the second chance" : migration from Ontario to the Upper Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Nora Faires -- Structuring the permeable border : channeling and regulating cross-border traffic in labor, capital, and goods / David R. Smith -- Migration, borderlands, and national identity : directions for research / Randy William Widdis -- Region, border, and nation / John J. Bukowczyk -- Primary sources in migration studies / Randy William Widdis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.

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