Article: The Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains.(Book review)

The Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains, by Tony Rees. Vancouver and Toronto, Douglas and McIntyre; and Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv, 393 pp. $39.95 Cdn (cloth).

The Canadian-American boundary is something of an icon in the relations between the two countries. The idea of the world's longest undefended border has been a source of pride for most Canadian and American politicians and spokespersons, and viewed as a model to the rest of the world of how rational nations should manage their affairs. Of course this was not always the case, as historians know. Tony Rees, who was trained in ...

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