Border Flows traces the century-long effort by Canada and the United States to care for the ecologically and economically shared rivers and lakes, a challenge that the editors call "a fundamental environmental and moral concern of the twenty-first century."
"Reading Taylor's incisive and critical seventh chapter. . . . there has never been a unified political entity that controlled the Salish Sea [and] the presence of pollutants varies across space within the Salish Sea and that people's access to, and reliance on, different fish varies by both geography and class."
- Canadian Historical Review
"Joseph Taylor returns to the Salish Sea, using the ecology of toxic chemicals to consider the meanings of diverse kinds of borders--including those that separate ourselves from nature."
- Scientia Canadiensis
"en délaissant les questions de partage des ressources et de souveraineté pour insister sur l'homogénéité écologique des régions étudiées . . . . La singularité des territoires disparaît alors au profit d'un récit plus classique des conséquences environnementales de l'anthropisation des espaces."
- Histoire sociale/Social History
"Reading Taylor's incisive and critical seventh chapter. . . . there has never been a unified political entity that controlled the Salish Sea [and] the presence of pollutants varies across space within the Salish Sea and that people's access to, and reliance on, different fish varies by both geography and class."
- Canadian Historical Review
"Joseph Taylor returns to the Salish Sea, using the ecology of toxic chemicals to consider the meanings of diverse kinds of borders--including those that separate ourselves from nature."
- Scientia Canadiensis
"en délaissant les questions de partage des ressources et de souveraineté pour insister sur l'homogénéité écologique des régions étudiées . . . . La singularité des territoires disparaît alors au profit d'un récit plus classique des conséquences environnementales de l'anthropisation des espaces."
- Histoire sociale/Social History