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A Line of Blood and Dirt

Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

by Benjamin Hoy
Malcolm Hillgartner
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Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty.
At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement.
The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.

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    June 22, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781666119657
      • File size: 312473 KB
      • Duration: 10:50:59

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The line on the map that separates the U.S. and Canada wasn't always the "world's longest undefended border." Rather, it was imposed across Indigenous lands with a pattern of violence. The sonorous voice of Malcom Hillgartner guides listeners on this examination of the border's evolution from the American Revolution through the Civil War and the Canadian Confederation, before it finally settled into its current form in the twentieth century. Historian Benjamin Hoy's style is approachable, more journalistic than academic, and it's warmed up by Hillgartner's easy-to-listen-to narration. Though, overall, this title may be more engaging for specialists in the field than for the general listener, the research is meticulous, and its oral histories add a human touch--that suit the audio edition. D.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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