![]() ![]() “Citizens of Convenience ultimately succeeds in its goal of locating theįormation of U.S. National, and international battlegrounds.” From its very beginning, the border’s meaning and bearing onĬitizenship generated heated contests waged by diverse combatants on local, Lies the U.S.-Canadian boundary, elusive in location and purpose for theīritish, American, and Native peoples who made their lives and fortunesĪround it. Rivalries, and marred by racial violence. Nation-building project unapologetically imperial, obsessed with continentalĪscendency, embroiled in diplomatic intrigue, fraught with commercial Raised in confusion about its own contours. To the Great Lakes, where he uncovers an infant U.S. Hatter enriches the growing corpus of American border studies by drawing our attention northward “In his timely new book, Citizens of Convenience, Lawrence B. ![]() ![]() Matthew Bahar of Oberlin College reviewed Citizens of Convenience in the April 2018 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly: ![]()
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