American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 2006

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 2006

Time to say goodbye.(Column)
June 22, 2006... Four years have passed since yours truly became Editor of ARCS. I've enjoyed almost every minute, having the pleasure of working with the many authors whose manuscripts finally saw the light of day. Once in a while a rejection prompted a crabby...

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
June 22, 2006... I. Introduction On March 23, 2005, U.S. President George Bush, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin jointly announced the establishment of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North...

Canada and human security: from the Axworthy doctrine to middle power internationalism.
June 22, 2006... Introduction One of the main priorities of Canadian foreign policy in the post-Cold War period has been the promotion of human security. Human security, a term popularized by the United Nations Development Program, refers to the physical...

The European Union and sovereignist politics in Quebec: who forgot their glasses?(Treaty on European Union, 1992)
June 22, 2006... "You know, at fifty plus one, I was not about to let go the country," Chretien himself later reflected. "You don't break your country because one guy forgets his glasses at home." (2) Introduction While the last provincial...

The effect of North American trade liberalization on the nature of Canadian trade, 1989-2002.
June 22, 2006... I. Introduction By the early 1980s, Canada-United States international trade was the largest bilateral trade flow in the world. In order to reduce its vulnerability to unilateral action from the United States through its foreign trade...

Would a borderless North America kill Canadian culture?
June 22, 2006... This paper starts from the premise that in the near future closer economic and security integration between Canada and the U.S. is inevitable. The border as we know it could conceivably disappear. We ask whether Canadian culture, broadly...

Book review essay: a Boltonian revival? D.W. Meinig and upper North American history.(The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years on History, Vol. 4, Global America, 1915-2000)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years on History, Volume 4, Global America, 1915-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 488 pp. $45.00 cloth. D.W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography...

Book review essay: Americans and Canadians: ongoing arguments over differences and similarities.(Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Edward Grabb and James Curtis. Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 319 pp. $45.00 paper. Books that stress differences between Canada and the United States are...

Force of Choice: Perspectives on Special Operations. Ethnic Studies.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bernd Horn, J. Paul de B. Taillon, and David Last, eds. Force of Choice: Perspectives on Special Operations. Ethnic Studies. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xii+218 pp. $30.00 paper. The terrorist attack on the World Trade...

In the Long Run We're All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Timothy Lewis. In the Long Run We're All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. Deficit financing was once believed to be a panacea that could create continuous stable growth with full...

Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Jamie Swift and Keith Stewart. Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2004. x + 249 pp. $25.00 paper. When a strike by Pennsylvania miners in 1902 halted coal shipments to Ontario, the...

Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Kevin S. Hanna, ed. Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 412 pp. $55.00 paper. This edited volume provides a comprehensive, detailed description and historical...

The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Heather Devine. The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. xx + 338 pp. $49.95 cloth. Heather Devine's The People Who Own Themselves traces the...

Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Julie Cruikshank. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press/Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xii + 312 pp. $25.00 paper, $85.00 cloth. This remarkable book is the...

Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Louis Fiset and Gail Nomura, eds. Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and...

The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Sheila McManus. The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxiii + 236 pp. $69.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. Civilization, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote...

The Red Man's On the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... R. Scott Sheffield. The Red Man's On the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 240 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paperback. The Red Man's On the Warpath analyzes the evolution of stereotypes...

Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Sugars, Cynthia. ed. Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004. 533 pp. $35.00 paper. Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature not only claims important...

Margaret Laurence: the Making of a Writer.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Donex Xiques. Margaret Laurence: the Making of a Writer. Toronto: Dundern Press, 2005. 408 pp. $40.00. Dr. Xiques has given us a goldmine of information on the early years of one of Canada's greatest literary figures; it is the result of...

Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier.(Whetstone)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Lorna Crozier, Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier, selected, with an introduction by Catherine Hunter. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005. xvii + 62 pp. $14.95 paper. Lorna Crozier, Whetstone. Toronto:...

Le Quebec au siecle des nationalites: essai d'histoire comparee.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Marcel Bellavance. Le Quebec au siecle des nationalites: essai d'histoire comparee. Montreal: vlb editeur, 2004. 256 pp. $24.95 paper. Marcel Bellavance posits a dichotomy between nationalism that strives for self-determination and...

Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Anna Pratt. Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. ix +290 pp. $29.95 paper. Securing Borders examines the practices governing security, immigration and refugee policies, and border control in...

A Fragile Social Fabric? Fairness, Trust, and Commitment in Canada.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Raymond Breton, Norbert J. Hartmann, Jos L. Lennards, and Paul Reed. A Fragile Social Fabric? Fairness, Trust, and Commitment in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 222 pp. $27.95 paper. Numerous recent books have studied...

Sport in Canada: A History.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Don Morrow and Kevin B. Wamsley. Sport in Canada: A History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 318 pp. $35.00 cloth. With the 2005 publication of Sport in Canada: A History, Don Morrow and Kevin Wamsley draw upon their extensive...

Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Lorry Felske and Beverly Rasporich, eds. Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. vii + 375 pp. $44.95, paper. Challenging Frontiers is a comprehensive anthology of essays about the Canadian...