The Struggle for the Border

by Bruce Hutchison and Vaughn Palmer

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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.
  • ISBN10 0195447921
  • ISBN13 9780195447927
  • Publish Date 26 April 2012 (first published 23 July 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 December 2016
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 520
  • Language English