American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 1999

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 1999

A political execution: expediency and the firing of Vice Admiral Percy W. Nelles, 1943-44.
December 22, 1999... On 14 January 1944 the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) announced that the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles, was being transferred to the newly created position of Senior Canadian Flag Officer (Overseas) (SCFO[O]). With the...

A de-programming curriculum: Allied reeducation and the Canadian-American psychological warfare program for German POWs, 1943-47.
December 22, 1999... The Canadian federal government, shut out of meaningful post-World War Two diplomacy by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, found few avenues to assert its separate Canadian identity in the immediate postwar era. The...

Changes in the quality of immigrant flows between the United States and Canada in the 1980s.
December 22, 1999... Introduction and Background It is well known that individuals will desire to migrate to the location where returns to their abilities are the highest, other things equal. An important theoretical factor in determining these returns is the...

The Bible and Protestant British North American identity in the early 1860s.
December 22, 1999... The Bible is the basis of the civil laws of our land. The laws of England, and of Canada are justly celebrated throughout the world: they are wise and humane, just and equal, at once our glory and our boast; and it is because they...

Margaret Atwood: A Biography.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Nathalie Cooke. Margaret Atwood: A Biography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1998. 378 pp. $24.95 cloth. At the end of Margaret Atwood: A Biography, Nathalie Cooke reveals that, while she was writing the book, Atwood alerted her to a number of texts...

Susanna Moodie: A Life.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Michael Peterman. Susanna Moodie: A Life. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999. 178 pp. $14.95 paper. This is the first critical biography of Canada's best-known pioneer author, and it will be equally welcome to established Moodie scholars and to...

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Kurkpatrick Dorsey. The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Foreword by William Cronon. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books), 1998....

A History of the Canadian Peoples.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... J.M. Bumsted. A History of the Canadian Peoples. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. This text is a one-volume paperback condensation of Professor Bumsted's earlier and more expansive The Peoples of Canada and is designed for college...

In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Greg Marquis. In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xx + 389 pp. $34.95 cloth. In this volume, Greg Marquis comprehensively addresses the...

Forging the Prairie West.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... John Herd Thompson. Forging the Prairie West. Toronto: Oxford University Press (The Illustrated History of Canada), 1998. xii + 212 pp. $29.95 paper. For the past fifteen years, students and scholars of the Canadian West have relied on...

Franklin Roosevelt and the Origins of the Canadian-American Security Alliance.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Galen Roger Perras. Franklin Roosevelt and the Origins of the Canadian-American Security Alliance, 1933-1945: Necessary, but Not Necessary Enough. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. xiii + 156 pp. $57.95 cloth. The formation of the...

Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Christian Riegel, ed. Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997. xxiii + 260 pp. $24.95 paper. In this book, editor Christian Riegel encourages readers to reevaluate "the basic...

Lire Margaret Atwood.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Marta Dvorak, ed. Lire Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale." Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (Collection Interferences), 1999. 126 pp. 65 F paper. In the early 1980s, published collections of critical essays, not to...

Canadian Public Policy: Globalization and Political Parties.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Andrew F. Johnson and Andrew Stritch, eds. Canadian Public Policy: Globalization and Political Parties. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1997. 314 pp. A key factor in the Liberal party's victory in the 1993 federal election was its "Red Book" of...

Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... Antonia Maioni. Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi + 205 pp. $37.50 cloth. Antonia Maioni has provided us with a thorough,...

A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986.(Book Review)
December 22, 1999... John Milloy. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. xix + 402 pp. $24.95 paper. In the late 1960s, my involvement with a church camp and, on a...

Books received.(Bibliography)
December 22, 1999... ARCHITECTURE Ward, Peter. A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. ix + 182 pp. $39.95 cloth. ART Backhouse, Jahet. The Sherborne Missal. Toronto:...