About the Author

JOHN HERD THOMPSON is professor and chair of the Department of History at Duke University and director of Duke's Canadian Studies Program. His previous books include Forging the Prairie West. STEPHEN I. RANDALL is dean of the faculty of social sciences at the University of Calgary. His previous books include Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence (Georgia).

Reviews

Fast-paced, informative, readable... At once an impressive piece of scholarship and definitive work in the field. - Historian