Recently added articles from American Review of Canadian Studies:
Popular music and identity in Quebec.
Jun 22, 2008; Piroth, Scott ... Introduction In his book Banal Nationalism, Michael Billig demonstrates that nationalism is by no means a "peripheral phenomenon, present in ethnic separatist movements but removed from common nation states." (1) Instead, citizens are perpetually reminded of their national ...
The myth of the Pacific society: Quebec's contemporary strategic culture.
Jun 22, 2008; Roussel, Stephane ... Introduction One of the most enshrined notions in Canadian foreign policy is that French-speaking Quebecois have a different attitude toward many issues than other Canadians, resulting in a national division that has come to be known as 'the two solitudes." This attitudinal ...
Complexity and contradiction in Canadian public sculpture: the case of Walter Allward (1).
Jun 22, 2008; Duffy, Dennis ... [The Great War] was a war of mass death in which massed men were fed for 1500 days to massed fire power so that more than 6000 corpses could be processed each day without letup. When it was over, 10,000,000 soldiers and civilians had been killed and mass death had become an acceptable part ...
Canadian cannabis: marijuana as an irritant/problem in Canada-U.S. relations.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
Jun 22, 2008; Gecelovsky, Paul ... The electronic, peer-reviewed Occasional Papers on Public Policy series, published at acsus.org by the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, is designed to highlight ongoing research in Canadian domestic and foreign policy at the federal, provincial, and city levels. ACSUS ...
Neglected structures of governance in U.S.-Canadian cross-border relationships.
Jun 22, 2008; Mason, Arthur ... Introduction On different occasions over the past several years, I have had the opportunity of examining the everyday policy-making activities of industry and government leaders involved in the planning of Alaska's natural gas pipeline project, a proposed 3,500-mile steel pipe ...
The options for Internet gambling in Canada.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
Jun 22, 2008; Rex, Justin ... Globally, online gambling is now at least a $15.5 billion a year market (James 2006). Currently, there are around 2,000 online gambling sites around the world, many of which are operating in small countries such as Antigua and Barbuda (537 sites) and Costa Rica (474 sites) (BBC 2007) ....
Trade corridors and North American competitiveness.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
Jun 22, 2008; Blank, Stephen ... The North American economy can best be visualized in the early 21st century as a deeply integrated continental system of supply chains structured by networks linking production centers and distribution hubs across the continent. These supply chains depend on an efficient and secure ...
Book review essay: Canada's Prime Ministers--how do they measure up?('Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney', 'Canada's Prime Minister: Macdonald to Trudeau', 'Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeav', and 'Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada: 1919-1944, vol. 1')(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Behiels, Michael D. ... Raymond B. Blake, ed. Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xix + 456 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Ramsay Cook and Real Belanger, eds. Canada's Prime Minister: Macdonald to Trudeau. Toronto: University of Toronto ...
Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds.(Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Neylan, Susan ... Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds. Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xx + 424 pp. $39.95 paperback. Belgian brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem ...
Rethinking Aboriginal Policy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Northrop, Jeanne E. ... John Richards. Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy. Ottawa: Renouf Publishing Company (Policy Study 43), 2006. xi + 142 pp. $21.95 paper. John Richards's 2006 book, Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy is a well-researched and well-documented investigation ...
The Regional Geography of Canada.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Rossiter, David A. ... Robert M. Bone. The Regional Geography of Canada, 4th ed. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2008. xx + 532 pp. $79.95 cloth. The task of writing a text that successfully accounts for the vast and varied geographies that make up Canada is made challenging by the sheer spatial ...
K. Douglas Munro, ed. Fur trade letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; True, Micah ... K. Douglas Munro, ed. Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006. xxvii + 339 pp. $34.95 paper. During a 29-year career as a clerk and then a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, William "Willie" Traill witnessed, among other ...
Other selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Wadland, John ... Janice Fiamengo, ed. Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers), 2007. 366 pp. $45.00 paper. This collection of essays constitutes an extremely valuable contribution to the rapidly maturing ...
A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police.(Policing the North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1932)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Whittles, M.J. ... Zhiqiu Lin. Policing the North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1932. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. 233 pp. $34.95 paper. The history of the Euro-Canadian settlement of the frontier that comprises the prairie ...
Books received.
Jun 22, 2008 ... Brightman, Robert A. Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2007. 185 pp. $29.95 paper. Cahill, Barry, Laurence DeWolfe, Murray Alary, Elizabeth A. Chard, and Lois York. The Blue Banner: The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and ...