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American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 2002
A quarterly publication presenting original research on topics relating to Canada and the humanities and social sciences. This is the official journal of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Academic interest.
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American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 2002
The changing faces of Canada: Images of Canada in National Geographic.
December 22, 2002... National Geographic's Canada is a place we are all familiar with. Whether through a subscription of our own, or issues found in a school library, or perhaps flipping through the magazine in a doctor's waiting room, most of us have seen Canada...
In search of the savage sauvage: an exploration into North America's s political cultures.(perceptions of the native Americans by early European explorers, missionaries, and colonists)
December 22, 2002... Introduction
On his 1534 voyage to the St. Lawrence, Jacques Cartier first encountered the "Sauvage" when he saw Beothuk Indians, elusive in the distance, as his ship reached the barren coast of Labrador. He described these aboriginal...
The grandfathering of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1).(Prime Minister of Canada and Ontario public monument)
December 22, 2002... Whatever its actual location, any public monument stands in the slot where politics collides with cultural politics. Energies beyond the purely aesthetic are always at play. Consider for a moment the currents that bore the monument there in the...
John Bartlet Brebner: the private man behind the professional historian.(Biography)
December 22, 2002... The Siamese Twins of North America" and the "North Atlantic Triangle" are terms coined by Canadian historian John Bartlet Brebner and now anchored in any study of Canada and Canadian-American relations. Carl Berger, in his 1976 seminal work The...
A prejudice that rarely utters its name: a historiographical and historical reflection upon North American anti-Catholicism.
December 22, 2002... In his recent critical essay on the history of the Catholic Church, Swiss-born theologian Hans Kung notes that assessments of the institution, both internal and external, vary significantly. A faithful but questioning priest, he opines that it...
National Culture and the first-year english curriculum: a historical study of "composition" in Canadian universities.(parallel American history presented)
December 22, 2002... The most frequently required course in American higher education is English composition. Although sometimes referred to as "dumbbell English" or "bonehead English" by Americans, the ubiquitous first-year English course, according to composition...
Book review essay: continuing to read Sinclair Ross.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Sinclair Ross. The Well. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2001. xviii + 239 PP. $16.95 paper. Whir of Gold. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2001. xvi + 237 pp. $16.95 paper. Saw bones Memorial. Edmonton: The University of...
Prendre la route: L'experience migratoire en Europe et en Amerique du Nord du XIVe au Xxe siecle. (Book Reviews: History).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Andre Courtemanche and Martin Paquet, eds. Prendre la route: L'experience migratoire en Europe et en Amerique du Nord du XIVe au Xxe siecle. Hull (Quebec): Editions Vent d'Ouest, 2001. 242 pp. $24.95 paper.
The history of the process of...
Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: A Study in Statecraft. (History).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Bohdan S. Kordan. Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: A Study in Statecraft. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xv + 258 pp.
Canada and the Ukrainian Question provides a concise and original account of...
The History of Canada. (History).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Scott W. See. The History of Canada. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. xx + 235 pp. $39.99, cloth.
Canada might be the most difficult foreign country to explain to Americans. Although they know very little about "America's northern...
Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy. (International Relations).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Rosalind Irwin, editor, Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001, 294 pp. $85.00 cloth.
Speaking at the Yale University commencement in 1962, President John F. Kennedy cautioned the young graduates, "The...
Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State. (International Relations).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Stephen McBride. Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2001. 188 pp. Paper.
Critics of globalization will find ammunition in Stephen McBride's book as it addresses questions raised by...
Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Woman Writers of the 1990s. (Literature).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Paula Ruth Gilbert and Roseanna L. Dufault (eds.). Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Woman Writers of the 1990s. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001, 396 pp. $57.50 cloth.
An ambitious project is at the origin of this...
Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century. (Literature).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Clarence Karr. Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. viv + 324 pp. $65.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
Cultural historians often confront a...
The Art and Genius of Anne Hebert: Essays on Her Works: Night and the Day Are One. (Literature).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Janis L. Pallister, ed. The Art and Genius of Anne Hebert: Essays on Her Works: Night and the Day Are One. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.399 pp. $43.50 cloth.
Even if the title rather overstates the obvious, one...
The Monk Knight of St. John. Introduction by David Beasley. (Literature).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Major John Richardson, The Monk Knight of St. John. Introduction by David Beasley. Buffalo, N.Y.: Davus Publishing. 2002. viii + 202 pp. $20.00 paper.
Far from a great novelist, John Richardson might with some exaggeration make it all the...
Sacred Hunt: A Portrait of the Relationship between Seals and Inuit. (Native studies).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... David F. Pelly, Sacred Hunt: A Portrait of the Relationship between Seals and Inuit. Foreword by the Honorable Peter Irniq. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre (Greysrone Books), 2001. xv+ 127 pp. $27.50 cloth.
This book explores the relationship...
Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way. (Politics and Government).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Peter Campbell, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. x + 303 pp. Cloth.
The impasse of socialist politics across the west has yielded a great number of important reflections on...
Book received.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2002... ART
Barnhart, Gordon L. Building for the Future: A Photo Journal of Saskatchewan's Legislative Building. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2002. 122 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Caccia, Fulvia. Interviews with the Phoenix: Interviews with...