American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 2003

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 2003

Locked in? Canada's external constitution under global trade governance.
June 22, 2003... The negotiation of supranational trade regimes may well be considered by historians as one of the most pregnant developments which brought the twentieth century to a highly polarized close. At one pole, the specialized community of trade...

NAFTA and the emergence of continental labor cooperation.
June 22, 2003... The impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on labor has been variously interpreted in terms of wage and employment levels as well as labor market structures in Canada, the United States and Mexico.(1) These studies tend to...

Alberta and Idaho: an implicit bond.
June 22, 2003... The study of regionalism has long been an important element of scholarly work in both Canada and the United States. This point is made clear by James Bickerton's observation that regionalism is a pervasive feature of Canadian society and...

M.B. "Doc" Marcell: official photographer of the first Calgary Stampede.
June 22, 2003... This paper grows out of my ongoing interest in the Calgary Stampede, the world's most extravagant celebration of cowboy culture. I build on two papers that focus on how Calgarians exploit the symbolic resources at their disposal, including the...

Judicial activism vs. restraint: the role of the highest courts in official language policy in Canada and the United States.
June 22, 2003... In the past twenty years, both Canada and the United States have witnessed a significant degree of conflict over language issues. Since the passage of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, there has been growing debate about the...

Canadian aboriginal saga: a people and a dream.(A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada)(Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador)(Prospering Together: The Economic Impact of the Aboriginal Title Settlements in B.C.)(Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Study in Decolonization)(Aboriginal People and Other Canadians: Shaping New Relationships)(The Problem of Justice. Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World)(Oka par la caricature: Deux visions distinctes d'une mime crise)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Dan Russell. A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 243. Colin H. Scott, ed. Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2001. Pp. xii,...

Charles F. Doran. Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xv + 300 pp. $55 cloth, $22.95 paper. This systematically researched book, authored by a leading authority in international and in U.S. Canadian relations, examines, inter alia, major challenges...

Daniel Madar. Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... UBC Press, 2000. 240 pp. $24.95 cloth. Madar, a professor of political science at Brock University, deftly traces concurrent developments of the trucking industries in Canada and the United States, paying attention to shifting political and...

Tom Warner. Never Going Back: a History of Queer Activism in Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xv + 430 pp. $95.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. After reviewing a few books in a row that I did not like, I resolved to accept to do another one only if I thought I was going to enjoy reading the book....

Clinton L. Evans. The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: an Environmental History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xvii + 309 pp. Three Appendices. $29.95 paper. In The War on Weeds in the Prairie West, Clinton L. Evans focuses on the human struggle with unwanted plants in the prairie areas of Manitoba,...

Theodore Binnema, Gerhard Ens, R.C. Macleod, eds. From Rupert's Land to Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2001. xxxii + 288 pp. $34.95 paper. This collection of essays meant to honor John Elgin Foster exceeds the standards set by most festschrifts. The articles included within this work sing with the...

Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, Bill Yeo, eds. Cowboys, Ranchers, and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000. Xiv+167 pp. $29.95 paper. In the opening essay to this wide-ranging collection of essays, Simon Evans argues that "now is the time to set aside sweeping comparisons between ranching in Canada and...

John Hagan. Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Xxii + 269 pp. $27.95 cloth. John Hagan's book, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, provides a useful reminder that the current heightened salience of the...

Cole Harris. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. xxxi + 415 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Beginning in 1850, the first concerted efforts at colonial settlement began in what would become British Columbia. The most linguistically and culturally diverse region...

Eva Mackey. The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xxii + 199 pp. $21.95 paper. Eva Mackey's The House of Difference is an anthropological study of the construction of national identity in Canada. Drawing from such figures as Michel Foucault,...

Trevor C. Salmon and Michael Keating, eds. The Dynamics of Decentralization: Canadian Federalism and British Devolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia Series, no. 3. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. viii + 192 pp. $24.95 paper. This book aims to compare decentralization in Canada and the United Kingdom. This is a timely attempt, for both...

Annick Germain and Damaris Rose. Montreal: the Quest for a Metropolis.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000. xiv + 306 pp. $100.00 cloth. This excellent book is a volume in a World Cities geography series, edited by R.J. Johnston and Paul Knox. Montreal is the first (and thus far the only) Canadian city...

Joseph I. Donohoe and Jane M. Koustas. Theater sans frontieres. Essays on the dramatic Universe of Robert Lepage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2000. x + 269 pp. This collection of essays in English on Robert Lepage's extraordinary career and oeuvre is a tremendous contribution to theater, performance, and film studies in...

Books received.
June 22, 2003... ART Kaye, Frances W. Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Praries. Edmonton: University of Albert Press, 2003. xxiii + 301 pp. $34.95 paper. CULTURE Ricou, Laurie. The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the...