The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium

By Kenneth S. Coates

Few construction projects of the twentieth century match the buildingof the Alaska Highway for drama, setting, and engineering challenge. Inrecognition of the 40th anniversary of this epidsode inCanadian-American cooperation, a symposium was held at Fort St. John,one of several communities that were, and still are, profoundlyaffected by the building of the road. The papers presented at thisinterdisciplinary gathering of international scholars of the Canadianand American births illustrate the significance of the highway in suchdiverse spheres as Canadian-American relations, British Columbiapolitics, American military history, and the evolution of the northernsociety.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774802294
• ISBN13: 9780774802291
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher