American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 2004

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 2004

Robin Winks: an appreciation.
March 22, 2004... Robin W. Winks, 1930-2003, was a pioneer in the development of Canadian Studies in the United States. He was a founding member of ACSUS and served on the Board of Editors for this journal. After graduating from the University of Colorado in...

Defining the "undefended": Canadians, Americans, and the multiple meanings of border during prohibition.(Canadian American relations from 1920 to 1933 )
March 22, 2004... Canada is a border nation. With over 75 percent of its population living within a hundred miles of the boundary, the border is a reality of virtually every Canadian's daily life. (1) Not only does it define citizenship, it contributes to how...

Playing in the neutral zone: meanings and uses of ice hockey in the Canada-U.S. borderlands, 1895-1915.
March 22, 2004... The part performed by Canada in making contributions to the list of the world's amusements has been by no means slight. Lacrosse and canoeing for the warm bright days of summer, snow-shoeing and tobogganing for the crisp cold nights of...

The New Democrats' search for relevance as a nudge party.(New Democratic Party, Canada)
March 22, 2004... Canada's New Democrats, a third party in federal politics, selected Toronto City Councillor Jack Layton as their federal leader in January 2003 over five opponents at a leadership convention held in Toronto after 40,000 votes had been cast in...

The drama of identity in Canada's francophone west.
March 22, 2004... The imaginary community that was French Canada began to disintegrate in the 1950s as Quebec emerged from the Grande Noirceur, as historians have come to call the long and oppressive rule of conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis, and entered...

Rhyming reds and fractious fictions: Canada's heritage of literary radicalism.(Review Essay)(Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James Doyle, Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002. 322 pp. $39.95 cloth. Thirty years ago Canadian understanding of various...

Prologue or epilogue?: thoughts on some recent Canadian scholarship in church history.(Review Essay)(George Emery. The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914.)(Terence J. Fay. A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism and Canadianism)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... George Emery. The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Terence J. Fay. A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism,...

Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies.(Canada-U.S. Relations)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates, eds. Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xxii + 302 pp. $22.95 paper. The study of Canadian-American relations has...

A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization.(Economics)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Michael Hart. A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. xv + 556 pp. $85 cloth, $29.95 paper. Michael Hart's A Trading Nation provides a rigorous yet highly readable analysis of...

Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, 2nd ed.(Health)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Pat and Hugh Armstrong. Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, 2nd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003. 272 pp. $19.95 paper. Surveys report that Canadians consider their health care system to be, perhaps, the most...

Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763.(History)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kenneth J. Banks. Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xi + 319 pp. $65.00 cloth. This excellent book, winner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of...

Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.(History)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Lita-Rose Betcherman. Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xi + 426 pp. Ernest Lapointe (1876-1941), a Riviere-du-Loup lawyer, was first elected as a Liberal MP during the...

A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.(History)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxiii + 462 pp. $29.95 paper. The friendly, "workable" boundary between today's U.S. and...

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure.(History)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Robert McGhee. The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xi + 196 pp. $40.00, cloth. As a child at school in the England of the late 1940s I particularly enjoyed a...

Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions.(Literature)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton, and Jennifer Andrews. Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. ix + 223 pp. $35.00 cloth. As in the United States, Native writers in Canada...

Islands West: Stories from the Coast.(Literature)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Keith Harrison, ed. Islands West: Stories from the Coast. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001. 420 pp. $22.95 paper. In his title and Introduction, Keith Harrison ventures that this anthology of thirty short stories might read as a set of...

Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women.(Literature)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Roxanne Rimstead. Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. X + 348 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Roxanne Rimstead's Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women surveys poverty...

Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940.(Native Studies)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Maureen K. Lux. Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii + 300 pp. $22.95 paper. In 1884, the Assiniboine leader Long Lodge told Canadian officials...

Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land.(Native Studies)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Victor Lytwyn, Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002), xiv + 289 pp. $24.95 paper. This work is essentially a study of the Cree who inhabited the physiographic...

Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada.(Policy Studies)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Donley T. Studlar. Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, Ltd., 2002. 327 pp. $19.95 paper. In Tobacco Control, Donley Studlar has produced a first rate comparative...

NAFTA in the New Millennium.(Politics and Government)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edward J. Chambers and Peter H. Smith, eds. NAFTA in the New Millennium. La Jolla, Cal.: University of California Press, 2002. xv + 504 pp. $26.95 paper. Approximately a decade ago, when NAFTA came into being, the U.S., Canada and Mexico...

Social Theory: Essential Readings.(Sociology)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gordon Bailey and Noga Gayle (eds.). Social Theory: Essential Readings, 2nd ed., Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003 [1993]. 502 pp. $35.00 paper. Is there a specific, genuine Canadian way to teach social theory? One might ask such an...

Earning and Caring in Canadian Families.(Sociology)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Roderic Beaujot. Earning and Caring in Canadian Families. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2000. 416 pp. $22.95 paper. This carefully researched text analyses the contradictions and tensions involved in earning a living while rearing...

Another Season's Promise: Hope and Despair in Canada's Farm Country.(Sociology)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ingebord Boyens, Another Season's Promise: Hope and Despair in Canada's Farm Country, Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002. xviii +276 pp. $23.00 paper "Every Canadian should read it," writes the Edmonton Journal of Ingebord Boyens' book on the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... ARCHEOLOGY Williamson, Ronald F., and Susan Pfeiffer, eds. Bones of the Ancestors: The Archeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary. Mercury Series, Archeology Paper 163. Gatineau, Que.: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003. xii...