| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820. By Joshua M. Smith. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xvi, 160 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2986-4.)

At the northeast corner of Maine, the border with New Brunswick runs along the Saint Croix River, whose mouth, Passamaquoddy Bay, is the focus of Borderland Smuggling. Because the exact line of the border among the islands in the bay was contested, local officials on both sides found it convenient to imagine a neutral zone there. Fog, tides, currents, and rocks added to the uncertainties of the place. Much of the illegal activity took place on the water and on islands in the bay, with local control centered particularly in Eastport, on the American side, and in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick.

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