Engaging the Line: How the Great War Shaped the Canada–US Border (Studies in Canadian Military History) - Hardcover

Dimmel, Brandon R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774832746 ISBN 13: 9780774832748

Publisher: UBC Press, 2016

Synopsis

For decades, people living in adjacent communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as “outside influences” that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in several border communities, including Windsor, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; and White Rock, British Columbia. This book brings to life the repercussions for these communities and offers readers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border by tracing the shifting relationship between citizens and the state during wartime.

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About the Author

Brandon R. Dimmel is a historian and writer based in London, Ontario, who has taught in the departments of history at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor. His work on the history of the Canada–US border and the First World War has been published in Histoire sociale/Social History, Journal of Borderlands Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, 49th Parallel, Public Sector Digest, and the collection of essays Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774832746
• ISBN 13: 9780774832748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242