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Canada and the United States

Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. xxi, 462. Cloth $70.00, paper $29.95.

Even outside of studies of the War of 1812, the relationship between the United States and British North America from the Revolution to the mid-nineteenth century has attracted more than its share of historians. Boundary questions, and the negotiations leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), have been treated (either centrally or tangentially) in a succession of works before and after the publication of Howard Jones's important To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783–1843 (1977). Francis M. Carroll's book, however, is much more than just another addition to the literature. 1

Carroll offers a meticulous account not only of negotiations per se but also of efforts to find effective arbitration, and of the accompanying search on the ground for relevant landmarks. Ultimately, the book argues, the settlement of 1842 was not only true to the original provisions of the second Treaty of Paris (1783) but also represented the triumph of peaceful compromise over the bellicosity of the likes of Lord Palmerston and the resulting threat of a new Anglo-American war that had persisted from 1839 to 1841. . . .

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