{"product_id":"the-longest-boundary-volume-2-consolidation-confirmation-and-completion-paperback","title":"The Longest Boundary: Volume 2 - Consolidation, Confirmation and Completion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Dunbabin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Volume 1 has shown, \u003cstrong\u003ean agreed line between the US and British North America was by the mid-19th century in place across the continent. But it could only survive if the authorities and people to its north wanted to maintain it. Much of Volume 2's focus is accordingly more domestic: \u003c\/strong\u003eCanada's evolution, notably \u003cstrong\u003eLaFontaine's determination\u003c\/strong\u003e (after the 1937 and 1838 'Patriote' rebellions) \u003cstrong\u003ethat French Canadian interests could best be protected by working\u003c\/strong\u003e with the Upper Canadian Reformer Baldwin \u003cstrong\u003eto secure 'responsible government' within the political system\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003ethe 1867 Confederation\u003c\/strong\u003e of the main British North American provinces into a single Dominion, \u003cstrong\u003eoften defended as their only way of remaining both British and distinct from the US\u003c\/strong\u003e, and which in New Brunswick benefited from backlash against a projected Fenian incursion; \u003cstrong\u003ethe keeping of the West out of American hands\u003c\/strong\u003e, through the rapid \u003cstrong\u003ecreation in response to the 1858 Fraser Valley gold rush of the Colony of British Columbia\u003c\/strong\u003e and then, \u003cstrong\u003ein 1869, the despatch of a new Governor to steer that Colony into Confederation\u003c\/strong\u003e; the complicated way in which \u003cstrong\u003eCanada\u003c\/strong\u003e eventually \u003cstrong\u003ecame to buy the Prairies from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869, only to have Métis keep its prospective Governor from entry; Louis Riel's establishment of a Provisional Government\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eits negotiation next year of entry into Confederation as the province of Manitoba\u003c\/strong\u003e; the slower \u003cstrong\u003econsolidation of Canadian control over these newly acquired areas\u003c\/strong\u003e, a process involving the \u003cstrong\u003ecreation of\u003c\/strong\u003e the iconic \u003cstrong\u003eNorthwest Mounted Police and Canadian Pacific Railway\u003c\/strong\u003e as well as the doomed attempt by Riel to repeat his 1869-70 achievements by again establishing a Provisional Government (now as the Prophet of a new religion) and negotiating with Canada. To these domestic themes, the book adds international ones arising out of \u003cstrong\u003eRussia's unforced decision to sell Alaska to the United States in 1867\u003c\/strong\u003e, which led to \u003cstrong\u003edisputes\u003c\/strong\u003e first \u003cstrong\u003eover the\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eUS claim to ownership of the entire Bering Sea\u003c\/strong\u003e (to prevent 'pelagic sealing') and then \u003cstrong\u003eover the Lynn Canal ports providing access to the Klondike goldfields. England's Chief Justice's substantial alignment with the American side of the 1903 Alaska Boundary Tribunal left Canada badly bruised\u003c\/strong\u003e, but once this feeling subsided resolution of that border question led on to \u003cstrong\u003esettlement of\u003c\/strong\u003e many other Canada-US disputes, including the \u003cstrong\u003efinal boundary difference over Passamaquoddy Bay mudflats\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Volume 1, this volume is \u003cstrong\u003efirmly based on primary sources, but written in a way that should appeal to the general reader as much as to specialised historians\u003c\/strong\u003e. Its chief actors are politicians and administrators, but there is a range of others, extending from First Nations chiefs to goldminers, railway entrepreneurs, prophets, and policemen. In the concluding chapter \u003cstrong\u003ethe book's general historical approach\u003c\/strong\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003esupplemented by\u003c\/strong\u003e assessment of the main perspectives of 'international relations theory'. Finally, attention is drawn to small \u003cstrong\u003eanomalies created by the boundary line\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53090751643955,"sku":"9781803816388","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pqmC0vjCKW9781803816388.webp?v=1772168065","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-longest-boundary-volume-2-consolidation-confirmation-and-completion-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}