American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 1999

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 1999

Five Canadian historians and the U.S.A.
June 22, 1999... In a little essay, partly jocular and partly serious, the noted Canadian historian J.M.S. Careless observed that "there could not be a Canada without the United States and may not be a Canada with one."(1) The essay appeared in 1968, a...

North Atlantic triangle revisited: (geo)political metaphor and the logic of Canadian foreign policy.
June 22, 1999... Introduction Old political metaphors, like General MacArthur's old soldiers, never seem to die; they just fade away. So it has been with perhaps the most Canadian of such metaphors, the geopolitical construct known as the "North Atlantic...

Thomas Hardy, Alice Munro, and the question of influence.
June 22, 1999... Near the beginning of Alice Munro's "Carried Away," from her 1994 collection, Open Secrets, a soldier writes a letter to the town librarian, Louisa, asking her to write and send a photograph. In her reply Louisa writes: "I had a great deal of...

Resemblance and relief: national clustering and social assistance provision - a subnational comparison.
June 22, 1999... Social assistance--cash and in-kind benefits provided to those deemed to be without the means for an adequate level of subsistence--has been a point of constant comparison between the United States and Canada. These comparisons have generally...

Idleness, water, and a canoe: reflections on paddling for pleasure.
June 22, 1999... Jamie Benidickson. Idleness, Water, and a Canoe: Reflections on Paddling for Pleasure. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.299 pp. This is a magnificent book, clearly the best ever, dealing seriously but with good humor and irony...

Higher education in Canada: different systems, different perspectives.
June 22, 1999... Glen A. Jones, ed., Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. xii + 367 pp. $61.00 cloth. Section 95 of the Constitution Act of 1867 established that "In and for each...

Open your hearts: the story of the Jewish war orphans in Canada.
June 22, 1999... Fraidie Martz. Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1996. 189 pp. $17.95 paper. In 1945, World War Two had ended, but some six million Jews--including more than a million children--had...

Philosophy of railways: the transcontinental railway idea in British North America.
June 22, 1999... A.A. den Otter. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xi + 292 pp. $34.95 cloth. A.A. den Otter raises Canada's schizophrenic relationship with...

On the eve of conquest: the Chevalier de Raymond's critique of New France in 1754.
June 22, 1999... Joseph L. Peyser, ed. and trans. On the Eve of Conquest: The Chevalier de Raymond's Critique of New France in 1754. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997. xii + 181 pp. This book represents an interesting hybrid of an...

Wives and warriors: women and the military in the United States and Canada.
June 22, 1999... Laurie Weinstein and Christie C. White, eds. Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1997. 252 pp. This is an interesting and informative work, especially for those who...

Selected letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman.
June 22, 1999... John Lennox and Ruth Panofsky, eds. Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. x + 424 pp. $24.95 paper. This volume offers a revealing correspondence between two very important and...

Land sliding: imagining space, presence, and power in Canadian writing.
June 22, 1999... W.H. New. Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xvii + 278 pp. $17.95 paper. As Northrop Frye's famous question "Where is here?" suggests, Canadian writing has...

Practising femininity: domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction.
June 22, 1999... Misao Dean. Practising Femininity: Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 134 pp. $16.95 paper. In her acknowledgements here, Misao Dean refers to Practising...

We are not you: first nations and Canadian modernity.
June 22, 1999... Claude Denis. We Are Not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1997. 178 pp. $15.95 paper. Claude Denis' book ostensibly revolves around a Coast Salish syewen in which the initiate claimed to have...

Hamatsa: the enigma of cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
June 22, 1999... Jim McDowell. Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1997. xiv + 297 pp. Hamatsa seeks to examine cannibalism tales on the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada from the earliest contact...

Degrees of freedom: Canada and the United States in a changing world.
June 22, 1999... Keith Banting, George Hoberg, and Richard Simeon, eds. Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. xvi + 493 pp. $24.95 paper. Do Canada and the United...

Governments, parties, and public sector employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France.
June 22, 1999... Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion. Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. ix +...

Organizing dissent: contemporary social movements in theory and practice.
June 22, 1999... William K. Carroll, ed. Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1997. ix + 333 pp. $24.95 paper. Professor Carroll has edited this second volume of essays on contemporary social...

Mr. Smith goes to Ottawa: life in the House of Commons.
June 22, 1999... David C. Docherty. Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. xxiii + 295 pp. $75 cloth; $24.95 paper. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose? This, among other topics,...

Misconceiving Canada: the struggle for national unity.
June 22, 1999... Kenneth McRoberts. Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii + 395 pp. $32.00 paper. This book makes a statement that many people may have wanted to suggest before now, but have...

Comparing federal systems in the 1990s.
June 22, 1999... Ronald Watts. Comparing Federal Systems in the 1990s. Kingston, ON: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. xvi + 126 pp. $14.95 paper. Those who study Canadian politics, especially the debates...