Recently added articles from American Review of Canadian Studies:
From the Editor.(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Dear Colleagues: The time has come to share with you two major events in our journal's evolution. They promise to strengthen both the quality and the reach of ARCS. Editorial Board/Associate Editors: At our meeting in Toronto last year, the ACSUS board and the ...
J. E. Bernier and the assertion of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Les Etats-Unis ont Bird et Peary. L'Angleterre posede Franklin et Shackleton. La Norvege chunk Amundsen et Nansen. Ici, au Canada, nous avons Bernier. (1) Joseph Elzear Bernier does not often rank in the annals of Arctic exploration in the company of Byrd. Shackleton, or ...
"A barricade of ships, guns, airplanes and men": arming the Niagara border, 1920-1930.
Dec 22, 2008; ... On April 19,1929, Chief Boatswain's Mate Hubert E. Wilbur and Surfman Orville M. LaGrant, both members of the US. Coast Guard, began a routine patrol of the Niagara River. The patrol, which nearly ended in bloodshed, provoked an international incident that took almost a year to resolve ....
Whose mission accomplished? Alberta at the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Dec 22, 2008; ... In the summer of 2006, Alberta became the first ever Canadian province to be featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Festival seeks to celebrate cultural diversity and promote awareness of cultural traditions, but in this ...
Parading the underworld of New Orleans in Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter.
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> [A place] implies an indication of stability. [ ...] [S]pace is like the word when it is spoken. [ ...] In short, space is a practiced place. --de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life </Pre> On the unnumbered page following the opening dedication to his 1976 novel Coming ...
Petitions from peripheries of empire: Louisiana and Quebec.
Dec 22, 2008; ... By the 1760s, British subjects in North America were familiar with elected assemblies. As their imperial administrators made a concerted effort to control colonial trade and to collect more taxes to pay down a massive war debt that had increased during the Seven Years' War, many British ...
The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Jonathan Swainger, ed., The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2007. vii + 366 pp. $44.50 cloth. Alberta draws a lot of attention these days: its politicians dominate ...
Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... James Loucky, Donald K. Alper, and J. C. Day. eds. Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008. viii + 343 pp. $34.95 paper. In an interdependent world, where nations share ecosystems, economic links, ...
Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture, and Commerce.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Whitson, David, and Richard Gruneau, eds. Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture, and Commerce. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006. xi + 282 pp. $26.95 paper. The one-two punch of David Whitson and Richard Gruneau is fast gaining the reputation of being the academic equivalent of the ...
Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... John Sandlos. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. 352 pp. $32.95 paper. "Modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a ...
The End of Ethics in a Technological Society.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Lawrence E. Schmidt and Scott Marratto. The End of Ethics in a Technological Society. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. ix + 246 pages. $27.95 paper. In this erudite and engaging synthesis, Schmidt and Marratto impressively marshal a wide range of ...
Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... James Loucky, Donald K. Alper, and J.C. Day, eds. Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. 240 pp. $34.95 paper. Before and After 9/11 All border scholars have been there. We're trying ...
Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Ryan Edwardson. Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. viii + 360 pp. $27.95 paper. Any examination of Canadian cultural production necessitates a concurrent review of Canadian content, the system of rules and quotas ...
Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives and Politics.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Brian W. Tomlin, Norman Hillmer, and Fen Osier Hampson. Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 432 pp. $66.95 paper. Canada's International Policies, by Brian W. Tomlin, Norman Hillmer. and Fen Osier Hampson, ...
Books received.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Banks, Catherine. Bone Cage. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press (PLCN), 2007. 111 pp, $17.95 paper. Barton, Bruce, ed. Collaboration and Devising: Critical Perspectives on Canadian 'Theater in English. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press (PLCN), 2008. 297 pp. $25.00 paper. ...
"Interests but no foreign policy": Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1941-1966.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Canadians have long delighted in the notion of a diplomatic "golden age," whose Pearsonian qualities of selfless and progressive internationalism set them apart as a chosen, if perhaps smug, people. Even today, the notion retains its potency, encouraging pundits and politicians alike to ...
Transnational Christian charity: the Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian refugee crisis, 1956-1957.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Canada's response to the 1956-1957 Hungarian refugee crisis has generally been treated by scholars as a highpoint in Canadian immigration history. In late October 1956, pro-democracy, anti-Soviet demonstrations directed at the Soviet-backed government of Erno Gero broke out in Budapest ....
Are enhanced trade and enhanced security mutually exclusive? The western Canada-U.S. borderland in a post-9/11 world.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In a post-September 11, 2001, North American trade environment, dramatic change appears to be the most visible constant in the Canada-United States borderland. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989 (FTA) and the subsequent North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994 (NAFTA) ...
Anti-Americanism in Canada, before and after Iraq.
Sep 22, 2008; ... When Americans think about anti-Americanism, they are likely to think of angry demonstrations in Pakistan, stuffy French intellectuals, or maybe a surly cab driver they once ran into in Mexico. Most are not likely to think of Canada, at least not right away. In fact, Americans who haven't ...
Grooving the nation: 1965-1980 as a literary era in Canada.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Literary critics have long been in the business of defining literary eras. Often the task is to organize national literatures into manageable segments, providing readers with landmarks for what might otherwise seem like a sea of narrative. This categorization usually involves making the ...