Table of Contents

• The Fence and the Bridge: Geopolitics and Identity along the Canada-U.S. Border by Heather N. Nicol
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Wars and Walls: The Early Canada-U.S. Border
• Chapter Two: All Together Now! Annexation, Immigration and Naturalized Geopolitics
• Chapter Three: The Uncrowning of Canada?
• Chapter Four: The Smooth Border Emerges
• Chapter Five: Theorizing Border Control in the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter Six: Constructing Risk, Securing Border
• Chapter Seven: Canada, the Border and American Hegemony: Cosmopolitanism? Or Not?
• Chapter Eight: Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Heather N. Nicol is a political geographer whose work explores the structure and operation of the Canada-US border, with special emphasis on the impacts of security and sovereignty. Among her publications are Beyond Walls: Reinventing the Canada-US Borderlands and Holding the Line: Border in a Global World. She is also interested in the circumpolar North as a geopolitical space, and the relationship between the interests of nation-states and indigenous peoples in the North.