John Hagan. Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada.(Book Review)

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Xxii + 269 pp. $27.95 cloth.

John Hagan's book, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, provides a useful reminder that the current heightened salience of the Canada-U.S. border is no historical anomaly. Rather, over the past two centuries, political turbulence in the United States has routinely raised the profile of the Canada-U.S. border, as Canada frequently has been seen as a refuge from militarism or political harassment in the United States. From the Revolutionary War era when loyalists fled north by the ...

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