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- Hutchison, Bruce

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The struggle for the border

Bruce Hutchison ; with a new introduction by Vaughn Palmer ; maps by James MacDonald

（The Wynford Project）

Oxford University Press, 2012

: [pbk.]

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Includes index

Originally published in 1955

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 carries the amazing chronicle up to the days just after the Second World War and the continental military and economic unification that laid the foundations of contemporary Canada. The Wynford edition of The Struggle for the Border includes a new Introduction by Vaughn Palmer, one of Canada's foremost political journalists and a winner of the Bruce Hutchison Award. Palmer's Introduction puts both the book and Hutchison's career in historical context for today's readers.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE WYNFORD EDITION
INTRODUCTION
1. The Odd Neighbours
2. The Rock
3. The Lost Blueprint
4. The Eagle
5. Letters from New York
6. A Soldier of Virginia
7. To Hebert's Farm
8. The English Gentleman
9. Blunder at Philadelphia
10. The Yankee Horse Traders
11. Tragedy at New York
12. The Mad General
13. Beyond the Shining Mountains
14. Race to the Sea
15. The Black Canyon
16. The Man in Scarlet
17. Emperor and King
18. Creatures Large and Tiny
19. The Titan from New England
20. The Dictator and His Disciples
21. Days of Goodwill
22. Old Tomorrow
23. Back to Quebec
24. Wild Irishmen
25. The Road to Ottawa
26. The Five-Ring Circus
27. The World's Lover
28. Defeat on the Potomac
29. Railway and Rebellion
30. Soft Voice, Big Stick
31. Taft's Orphan Child
32. The Higher Lunacy
33. Friends, Alive or Dead
34. Onward from Hyde Park
35. Days of Doubt
INDEX

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