New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In an important new contribution to the growing field of transnational studies, the authors in "New England and the Maritime Provinces" take a critical and analytical approach to comparisons between these two regions. Leading scholars examine the relationship through analysis of historic, economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental themes common to both regions. They show what the effects have been, on both sides of the border, of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ill-defined boundaries to a bordered land with defined political borders. They further demonstrate that such boundaries are never absolute and that in some ways the region remains a social, cultural, and environmental borderland.Contributors are Robert H. Babcock (University of Maine), Betsy Beattie (University of Maine), Beatrice Craig (University of Ottawa), Jacques Ferland (University of Maine), Julian Gwyn (University of Ottawa), Colin D. Howell (Saint Mary's University), Edward D. Ives (University of Maine), Richard W.Judd (University of Maine), Elizabeth Mancke (University of Akron), Bill Parenteau (University of New Brunswick), Geoffrey Plank (University of Cincinnati), David Sanger (University of Maine), Scott See (University of Maine), Joshua Smith (US Merchant Marine Academy), Reginald C. Stuart (Mount Saint Vincent University), D. A. Sutherland (Dalhousie University), M. Brook Taylor (Mount Saint Vincent University), Deborah C. Trefts (independent scholar), William Wicken (York University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).