American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 2008

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 2008

Popular music and identity in Quebec.
June 22, 2008... Introduction In his book Banal Nationalism, Michael Billig demonstrates that nationalism is by no means a "peripheral phenomenon, present in ethnic separatist movements but removed from common nation states." (1) Instead, citizens are...

The myth of the Pacific society: Quebec's contemporary strategic culture.
June 22, 2008... Introduction One of the most enshrined notions in Canadian foreign policy is that French-speaking Quebecois have a different attitude toward many issues than other Canadians, resulting in a national division that has come to be known as...

Complexity and contradiction in Canadian public sculpture: the case of Walter Allward (1).
June 22, 2008... [The Great War] was a war of mass death in which massed men were fed for 1500 days to massed fire power so that more than 6000 corpses could be processed each day without letup. When it was over, 10,000,000 soldiers and civilians had been...

Canadian cannabis: marijuana as an irritant/problem in Canada-U.S. relations.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
June 22, 2008... The electronic, peer-reviewed Occasional Papers on Public Policy series, published at acsus.org by the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, is designed to highlight ongoing research in Canadian domestic and foreign policy at...

Neglected structures of governance in U.S.-Canadian cross-border relationships.
June 22, 2008... Introduction On different occasions over the past several years, I have had the opportunity of examining the everyday policy-making activities of industry and government leaders involved in the planning of Alaska's natural gas pipeline...

The options for Internet gambling in Canada.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
June 22, 2008... Globally, online gambling is now at least a $15.5 billion a year market (James 2006). Currently, there are around 2,000 online gambling sites around the world, many of which are operating in small countries such as Antigua and Barbuda (537...

Trade corridors and North American competitiveness.(ACSUS Occasional Papers on Public Policy Series)
June 22, 2008... The North American economy can best be visualized in the early 21st century as a deeply integrated continental system of supply chains structured by networks linking production centers and distribution hubs across the continent. These supply...

Book review essay: Canada's Prime Ministers--how do they measure up?('Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney', 'Canada's Prime Minister: Macdonald to Trudeau', 'Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeav', and 'Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada: 1919-1944, vol. 1')(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Raymond B. Blake, ed. Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xix + 456 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Ramsay Cook and Real Belanger, eds. Canada's Prime Minister: Macdonald to...

Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds.(Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Marry Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens, eds. Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xx + 424 pp. $39.95 paperback. Belgian...

Rethinking Aboriginal Policy.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... John Richards. Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy. Ottawa: Renouf Publishing Company (Policy Study 43), 2006. xi + 142 pp. $21.95 paper. John Richards's 2006 book, Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy is a...

The Regional Geography of Canada.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Robert M. Bone. The Regional Geography of Canada, 4th ed. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2008. xx + 532 pp. $79.95 cloth. The task of writing a text that successfully accounts for the vast and varied geographies that make up Canada is...

K. Douglas Munro, ed. Fur trade letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... K. Douglas Munro, ed. Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006. xxvii + 339 pp. $34.95 paper. During a 29-year career as a clerk and then a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, William...

Other selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Janice Fiamengo, ed. Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers), 2007. 366 pp. $45.00 paper. This collection of essays constitutes an extremely valuable...

A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police.(Policing the North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1932)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Zhiqiu Lin. Policing the North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1932. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. 233 pp. $34.95 paper. The history of the Euro-Canadian settlement of the...

Books received.
June 22, 2008... Brightman, Robert A. Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2007. 185 pp. $29.95 paper. Cahill, Barry, Laurence DeWolfe, Murray Alary, Elizabeth A. Chard, and Lois York. The Blue Banner: The...