"The Land in Between is a superb popular history of a place in northeastern North America that gets less attention than it deserves in general histories of the eastern provinces or Maine . . . . The overall result is a well-balanced text, complimented by a wide array of stunning illustrations, which can be read from cover to cover or perused to investigate specific aspects of the history of the region. . . . it is in many respects a definitive history that is likely to stand for generations, as few localities in northeastern North America can boost such a deeply researched and professionally presented general history."
—American Quarterly

The "land in between" is the upper St. John Valley, a region straddling the Maine-New Brunswick border. A zone of contacts between different Native American cultures until the arrival of the Europeans, it was disputed by the British and the French in the colonial period and settled by Acadians and French Canadians in the eighteenth century. To this day, it has remained the site of a distinct French-American culture, and its residents have striven to preserve their specificity and unity despite the international boundary. The Land in Between is a narrative survey history of this fascinating and unique region and is also designed to serve as a reference for teachers, librarians, archivists, and historians. It includes documents (many translated from the original), maps, and an extensive bibliography.

Béatrice Craig holds a PhD in Canadian-American history from the University of Maine. She is a full professor of History at the University of Ottawa (Canada), and the author of Homespun Capitalists and Backwoods Consumers, University of Toronto Press, 2007, as well as numerous articles on the history of the Upper Saint John Valley.

Maxime Dagenais is a doctoral candidate in Nineteenth-Century Canadian History at the University of Ottawa. He obtained his BA in History from Concordia University in 2003 and his MA from the University of Ottawa in 2006. His thesis "When on Active Service: Discipline and Illegal Absences in the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade" deals with French-Canadian military history.