A wall of many heights : the uneven enforcement of the Canadian-United States border
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the creation, demarcation, and enforcement of the Canadian-United States border from the American Revolution until 1924. Although diplomats often viewed the division between national spaces as a clean and uniform line, the Canadian-United States border is better understood as a series of interlocking, uneven, and inconsistent walls. Federal administrators created national border policy, but local agents dictated the practical impacts this policy could have. Inconsistent policy decisions ensured that the border closed at different times in different regions and created an uneven set of impositions on borderland communities. As a result, federal border policy cannot be understood by looking at a single racial, ethnic, or tribal group. Europeans, Chinese, African Americans, Cree, Sioux, Nez Perce, Métis, Stó:lō, Haida, Ojibwe, and Iroquois all experienced the impacts of border closure in different ways and to different extents.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hoy, Benjamin |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Camarillo, Albert |
| Thesis advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
| Advisor | Camarillo, Albert |
| Advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Benjamin Hoy. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Benjamin Thomas King Hoy
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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