New England & the Maritime Provinces

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

• ISBN13: 9780773530409
• ISBN10: 0773530401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. InNew England and the Maritime Provincesleading scholars examine this important relationship through analysis of themes common to both regions and show the effects of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ill-defined boundaries to a bordered land with defined political borders. They demonstrate that such boundaries are never absolute and that in some ways the region remains a social, cultural, and environmental borderland.A significant addition to the growing field of transnational studies,New England and the Maritime Provincesreveals a relationship that, although sometimes troubled, retains its importance in the current era of globalization.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula	p. 15
Spaces of Power in the Early Modern Northeast	p. 32
Passamaquoddy Identity and the Marshall Decision	p. 50
New England Soldiers in the St John River Valley, 1758-1760	p. 59
Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French	p. 74
Comparative Economic Advantage: Nova Scotia and New England, 1720s-1860s	p. 94
Humbert's Paradox: The Global Context of Smuggling in the Bay of Fundy	p. 109
Variations on a Borderlands Theme: Nativism and Collective Violence in Northeastern North America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	p. 125
Nova Scotia and the American Presence: Seeking Connections Without Conquest, 1848-1854	p. 144
The Command of Money in Shaws' Borderlands, 1859-1887	p. 159
Re-Examining the Economic Underdevelopment of the Maritime Provinces: A Case Study of Portland, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick	p. 175
Maine-Maritimes Folklore: The Lumberwoods Connection	p. 201
Canadian and American Policy Making in Response to the First Multi-Species Fisheries Crisis in the Greater Gulf of Maine Region	p. 206
More Buck for the Bang: Sporting and the Ideology of Fish and Game Management in Northern New England and the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1900	p. 232
The "Boston States": Region, Gender, and Maritime Out-Migration, 1870-1930	p. 252
Borderlands, Baselines, and Big Game: Conceptualizing the Northeast as a Sporting Region	p. 264
The Epic of Greater North America: Themes and Periodization in North American History	p. 280
Peeping Through the Cracks: Seeking Connections, Comparisons, and Understanding in Unstable Space	p. 295
Notes	p. 315
Index	p. 407
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