New England And The Maritime Provinces

by Hornsby, Stephen J.; Reid, John G.

• ISBN13: 9780773528659
• ISBN10: 0773528652
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-10
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examination, this volume takes a critical and analytical approach to comparisons between the two regions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
1 Introduction
Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid	3	(12)
2 Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula
David Sanger	15	(17)
3 Spaces of Power in the Early Modern Northeast
Elizabeth Mancke	32	(18)
4 Passamaquoddy Identity and the Marshall Decision
William Wicken	50	(9)
5 New England Soldiers in the St John River Valley, 1758-1760
Geoffrey Plank	59	(15)
6 Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French
Beatrice Craig	74	(20)
7 Comparative Economic Advantage: Nova Scotia and New England, 1720's-1860's
Julian Gwyn	94	(15)
8 Humbert's Paradox: The Global Context of Smuggling in the Bay of Fundy
Joshua C. Smith	109	(16)
9 Variations on a Borderlands Theme: Nativism and Collective Violence in Northeastern North America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Scott W. See	125	(19)
10 Nova Scotia and the American Presence: Seeking Connections Without Conquest, 1848-1854
D.A. Sutherland	144	(15)
11 The Command of Money in Shaws' Borderlands, 1859-1887
Jacques Ferland	159	(16)
12 Re-Examining the Economic Underdevelopment of the Maritime Provinces: A Case Study of Portland, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick
Robert H. Babcock	175	(26)
13 Maine-Maritimes Folklore: The Lumberwoods Connection
Edward D. Ives	201	(5)
14 Canadian and American Policy Making in Response to the First Multi-Species Fisheries Crisis in the Greater Gulf of Maine Region
Deborah C. Trefts	206	(26)
15 More Buck for the Bang: Sporting and the Ideology of Fish and Game Management in Northern New England and the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1900
Bill Parenteau and Richard W. Judd	232	(20)
16 The "Boston States": Region, Gender, and Maritime Out-Migration, 1870-1930
Betsy Beattie	252	(12)
17 Borderlands, Baselines, and Big Game: Conceptualizing the Northeast as a Sporting Region
Colin D. Howell	264	(16)
18 The Epic of Greater North America: Themes and Periodization in North American History
Reginald C. Stuart and M. Brook Taylor	280	(15)
19 Peeping Through the Cracks: Seeking Connections, Comparisons, and Understanding in Unstable Space
Graeme Wynn	295	(20)
Notes	315	(92)
Index	407