American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 1998

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 1998

Editorial: reviewing reviewing (or, reviewing, reviewing!) (comparative Canadian and American studies of Canadian literature and history).
March 22, 1998... Margaret Atwood. In Search of "Alias Grace." Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in Canadian Studies. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1997. 39 pp. Eugene Benson and William Toye, eds. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd ed. Don...

NAFTA and the fragmentation of Canada.
March 22, 1998... Introduction: Free Trade in Canadian History In a deeply disturbing article about Canada's future, Charles Doran (1996, 108) cast the problem of Quebec separatism in larger terms and asked, "In the aftermath of the Cold War, is the system...

Community values in the law and practice of journalism.
March 22, 1998... In the fall of 1995, at the same time that The Washington Post and New York Times were struggling with the decision to publish the Unibomber's manifesto, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local authorities were in the midst of a...

Vandals at the garden's gates? Political reaction to the maritime union proposal on Prince Edward Island.
March 22, 1998... The concept of Maritime union--that is, a political amalgamation of the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island--has, in recent years, again appeared on the Canadian political agenda. As in the past, two main forces...

Wildlife promotions, western Canadian boosterism, and the conservation movement, 1890-1914.
March 22, 1998... Between 1890 and World War One, western Canadians advertised their region as the last wildlife stronghold in North America. Few studies have assessed how and why westerners sought to win distinction as custodians of the last wild animals but,...

"Middle power blues": Canadian policy and international security after the Cold War.
March 22, 1998... Canada has recently reaffirmed its standing as a Middle Power. By taking an important stance on issues such as peacebuilding and the outlawing of antipersonnel landmines, by promoting a shift to human security, and by supporting the setup of...

I bless you in my heart: selected correspondence of Catherine Parr Traill.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael A. Peterman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. In Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf considers the role of letters in our everyday lives: Let us consider letters--how they...

Who killed Canadian history?
March 22, 1998... Toronto: Harper Collins, 1998. If all disciplines have fetishes, the perverse fixation of contemporary historiography seems to be necrophilia. In the past thirty years a spate of works has appeared chronicling The Death of the Past, the...

Review essay: ... (The other country: patterns in the writing of Alice Munro; The tumble of reason: Alice Munro's discourse of absence).
March 22, 1998... James Carscallen. The Other Country: Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro. Toronto: ECW Press, 1994. 581 pp. $40.00 paper. Ajay Heble. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994....

Cultural industries in Canada: problems, policies and prospects.
March 22, 1998... Toronto: Lorimer, 1996. $24.95. Since the Free Trade Agreement and the subsequent NAFTA were negotiated and came into effect, Canada's cultural dilemma--how to protect and nurture Canadian cultural creativity and productivity in the face...

Help us to a better land.
March 22, 1998... Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1994. xviii + 107 pp. $15.00 cloth. The Canadian Plains Research Center has produced two works that represent different aspects of agricultural history and the development and metamorphosis of...

Fashioning farmers: ideology, agricultural knowledge, and the Manitoba Farm Movement, 1890-1925.
March 22, 1998... Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1994. vi + 162 pp. $18.00 cloth. The Canadian Plains Research Center has produced two works that represent different aspects of agricultural history and the development and metamorphosis of...

Canadians at last: Canada integrates Newfoundland as a province.
March 22, 1998... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 184 pp. $19.95 paper. Professor Blake's readable, concise contribution to the growing literature on Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada's tenth province, confirms the researches of Peter Neary in...

Particular condition in life: self-employment and social mobility in mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario.
March 22, 1998... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xii + 309 pp. David G. Burley offers a richly detailed, statistical, and descriptive social history of entrepreneurship in mid-to-late nineteenth-century "Ontario"--otherwise...

Affaire Bernonville: le Quebec face a Petain et a la collaboration (1948-1951).
March 22, 1998... Quebec: VLB Editeur, 1994. 217 pp. $18.95 paper. (Also published in English translation by George Tombs as The Bernonville Affair: A French War Criminal in Quebec After World War II. Montreal: Robert Davies Publishing, 1995. 154 pp. $17.99...

Soldiers of 1814: American enlisted men's memoirs of the Niagara campaign.
March 22, 1998... Donald E. Graves, ed. Young-stown, NY: Old Fort Niagara Association, 1995. 80 pp. Some years ago, a Canadian friend described the 1813 battle of Queenston Heights to me as "the place where our guys beat your guys." Another time, when I was...

Plunder, profit, and paroles: a social history of the War of 1812 in Upper Canada.
March 22, 1998... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. x + 334 pp. $39.95 cloth. Some years ago, a Canadian friend described the 1813 battle of Queenston Heights to me as "the place where our guys beat your guys." Another time, when...

Child letters: public and private life in a Canadian merchant-politician's family, 1841-1845.
March 22, 1998... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. xvii + 177 pp. $39.95 cloth. The Child Letters is the third book by J.I. Little that examines nineteenth-century society in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada/Quebec. Unlike...

Sexualizing power in naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove.
March 22, 1998... Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994. x + 262 pp. While the comparison of Grove and Dreiser goes back as far as 1932, and was concretized by Northrop Frye in 1948 on the basis of a shared "naturalism," Irene Gammel reorients the...

Smoke and mirrors: the Canadian tobacco war.
March 22, 1998... Ottawa: International Development Research Center, 1996. xix + 376 pp. $25.00 paper. This book, by one of Maclean's "100 Canadians to Watch" (1 July 1997) is the first comprehensive account of tobacco as a public policy issue in Canadian...

Essai de geopolitique urbaine et regionale: la comedie urbaine de Quebec 2e ed.
March 22, 1998... Montreal: Editions du Meridien, 1994. 654 pp. $34.95 paper. Quebec City, with its commanding site on the St. Lawrence River and its rich historic patrimony, is a very special place in North America. It is also a metropolitan area of fifty...