American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 2007

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 2007

Introduction: Canada in the North Pacific.
June 22, 2007... This issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies contains a selection of papers presented at ACSUS's 35th anniversary colloquium, held September 28-30, 2006. The ACSUS colloquium series--organized in even-numbered years provides a forum...

Mapping North America: Visual Representation of Canada and the United States in recent academic work and editorial cartoons.
June 22, 2007... How does geography constrict or define historical imagination? In a 2004 paper, W. Dirk Raat of Arizona State University explored a range of new conceptual maps of the world. Raat's particular intent was to challenge the Euro-centric bias that...

A history of Chinese immigration in the United States and Canada.
June 22, 2007... Introduction The transformation from an industrial to a high-tech, postindustrial economy in North America has had the effect of changing the way in which the governments of Canada and the United States view immigrants and visitors from...

The collision, interaction, and integration of heterogeneous cultures in the global context: the impact of The Monument on Huaju (modern Chinese drama).
June 22, 2007... China's Central Experimental Theatre first staged the Canadian drama The Monument on October 28, 2000, in Beijing. It was the first Canadian drama to be produced in China and performed in Chinese. Set in an unnamed country in the wake of an...

East meets west in the Canadian oil sands.
June 22, 2007... Introduction The U.S. economy consumes large amounts of imported oil. In 2006, U.S. oil consumption was about 20 million barrels per day (mbd), with domestic production a little over 8mbd. This gap of 12mbd (which has been growing since...

Markets for western Canada's forest products in East Asia.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Introduction While the United States has long been the most important destination for western Canada's forest products, markets in Asia have also played an important role in the development of western Canada's forest industry. Japan has...

Searching for the North in North American foreign policies: Canada and the United States.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Canada needs to bring a comprehensive northern dimension to its foreign policy. To be effective, the new policy must be an integral part of Canada's broader foreign policy, and must be reinforced by domestic policies. The...

Transnational environmental management: U.S.-Canadian institutions at the interlocal scale.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Salmon know no borders or boundaries. The representatives from both countries recognized this fact, and had the wisdom to fashion an agreement to work for the good of the resource and its users in Alaska and Canada. U.S. Fish...

Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812, 2nd.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Gilbert Collins. Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812, 2nd ed. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2006. 389. $ 24.99 paper. As the bicentennial of the War of 1812 approaches, the conflict to which both American and Canadian history...

Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jan Hare and Jean Barman. Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. xxii + 306. $29.95 paper. In Good Intentions Gone Awry, authors Jan Hare and Jean Barman succeed...

Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Robert Malcomson. Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812. Lanharn, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. lxiii + 701 pp. $125.00 cloth. Notwithstanding occasional trade disputes and the rivalry of international hockey tournaments, the relationship...

Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2005. x + 308 pp. $95.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. There are a handful of books which have had an...

Saskatchewan Agriculture: Lives Past and Present.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Lisa Dale-Burnett, ed. Saskatchewan Agriculture: Lives Past and Present. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2006. ix + 205 pp. $19.95 paper. This volume is the fourth to be published in the Canadian Plains Research Center's...

Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Claire Elizabeth Campbell. Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. xx + 282 pp. $29.95 paper. In Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay, Claire Elizabeth Campbell takes...

Figures de l'autre dans le roman quebecois.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Janet M. Paterson. Figures de l'autre dans le roman quebecois. Quebec: Editions Nota Bene, 2004. 238 pp. $23.95 cloth. Janet Paterson has been a leading voice in Quebec literary criticism since the publication of her award-winning study,...

Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Andie Diane Palmer. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxii + 250pp. $60.00 paper. Nowhere in Canada is undertaking Aboriginal scholarship as exigent as in...

Party Movements in the United States and Canada.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mildred A. Schwartz. Party Movements in the United States and Canada. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. xi + 239 pp. $80.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Mildred Schwartz has long served as the most prolific and insightful of the few...

The Elections of 2000: Politics, Culture, and Economics in North America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mary K. Kirtz, Mark J. Kasoff, Rick Farmer, and John C. Green, eds. The Elections of 2000: Politics, Culture, and Economics in North America. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2006. xii + 288 pp. $19.95 paper. The starting point of...

Icy Battleground: Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Seal Hunt.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Donald Barry. Icy Battleground: Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Seal Hunt. St. John's NL: Breakwater Books, 2005. xiii + 167 pp. $19.95 paper. The seal hunt off Canada's east coast has been a lightning rod for...

Canada's Governors General, 1847-1878: Biography and Constitutional Evolution.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Barbara Messamore. Canada's Governors General, 1847-1878: Biography and Constitutional Evolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii + 308 pp. $29.95 paper. The office of governor general is one that most Canadians understand...

Books received.
June 22, 2007... Brown, Craig. A Generation of Excellence: A History of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xiii + 352 pp. $65 cloth. Buckncr, Phillip, and R. Douglas Francis. Canada and the British...