American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 2005

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 2005

Defining Canadian security: continuities and discontinuities (1).
March 22, 2005... Introduction With every new prime minister coming into office in Canada, observers of Canadian foreign policy have become accustomed to calls for a foreign policy review: Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968, Brian Mulroney in 1984, Jean...

Peace, order, and good songs: popular music and English-Canadian culture.(Anti-Americanism in popular Canadian culture)
March 22, 2005... Industry sales statistics demonstrate the extent to which popular music permeates Canadian life. According to the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry, Canada is the sixth largest market for recorded music sales. (1) Figures...

Heading south to make it big: the American success of Canada's you can't do that on television.
March 22, 2005... For scholars and policy-makers anxious about questions of Canadian national identity, the standard narrative describing the flow of television programming across the U.S.-Canadian border is one of an invasion from the south. After all, as...

For the general good: the debate over private vs. public ownership of telephones and the Canadian West, 1900-1912 (1).
March 22, 2005... In the opening years of the twentieth century, there erupted a controversy on both sides of the Canadian-American border that led directly to the establishment of government-owned and operated telephone systems in Canada's three prairie...

Canada's system of representation in crisis: the "279 formula" and federal electoral redistributions (1).
March 22, 2005... The absence of strictly defined concepts of representation has meant that demographic change has not automatically engendered electoral boundary readjustments. --R.K. Carty (2) In March 2002, Canada's Chief...

Book review essay: Canadian History textbooks for a U.S. audience.
March 22, 2005... J.M. Bumstead. The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 512 pp. $35.95 paper. J.M. Bumstead. The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History. Toronto: Oxford University Press,...

Book review essay: reflections on Canadian cinema.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... William Beard and Jerry White, eds. North of Everything: Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002. xxiii + 488 pp. $75.00 cloth, $49.95 paper Eugene P. Walz, ed. Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15...

Book review essay: trailing crowds of gables: Canada, children's literature, and the meaning of culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Joyce Bainbridge and Sylvia Pantaleo. Learning with Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1999. xiv + 268 pp. $39.95 paper. Deirdre Baker and Ken Setterington. A Guide to Canadian...

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Michael Adams. Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2003. xiv + 224 pp. $35.00 cloth. Michael Adams' Fire and Ice, is a Donner Prize-winning comparative analysis of changing...

Drawing Lines in Sands and Snow: Border Security and North American Economic Integration.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Bradly J. Condon and Tapen Sinha. Drawing Lines in Sands and Snow: Border Security and North American Economic Integration. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003. xxi + 211 pp. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Since September 11, 2001, policy...

Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Boyd, David R. Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. xvi + 469. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. In Unnatural Law, David R. Boyd sets out to accomplish three things: to assess the current...

Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Theodore Binnema. Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xvi + 263 pp. $27.95 paper, $75.00 cloth. Theodore Binnema's Common and Contested...

Charles Clarke: Pen and Ink Warrior.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Kenneth C. Dewar. Charles Clarke: Pen and Ink Warrior. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xvii + 330pp. $44.95 cloth. Charles Clarke (1827-1909) was a was a prominent local journalist, politician, and businessman; sometimes...

Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ian Robert Dowbiggin. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 245 pp. In Keeping America Sane, Ian Robert Dowbiggin explores how...

Trails and Trials: Markets and Land use in the Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Max Foran. Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. xv + 317 pp. $34.95 paper. Max Foran's encyclopedic study of the Alberta cattle industry through...

Booze: A Distilled History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Craig Heron. Booze: A Distilled History. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2003. xiii + 494 pp. $29.95 paper. Craig Heron has undertaken an ambitious task in Booze: A Distilled History, a narrative overview of the history of alcohol in...

La Ruee vers le Sud: Migrations du Canada vers les Etats-Unis, 1840-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Bruno Ramirez (avec la collaboration d'Yves Otis et traduit de l'anglais par Pierrot Lambert.) La Ruee vers le Sud: Migrations du Canada vers les Etats-Unis, 1840-1930. Montreal: Boreal, 2003. 278 pp. $24.95 paper. La Ruee vers le Sud...

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... George Elliott Clarke. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xii + 491 pp. $88.00 cloth, $38.95 paper. George Elliott Clarke has long been recognized as the preeminent scholar of...

Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... William H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 1347 pp. $75.00 cloth. At last, a volume that presents in an easily accessible format historical, critical, and biographical material on...

Reading Nelligan.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Emile J. Talbot. Reading Nelligan. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. x + 222 pp. $65.00 cloth. As its title suggests, this study focusing on the work of one of French-speaking Canada's most enigmatic and intriguing literary...

L'ecrivain imaginaire: Essai sur le roman quebecois, 1960-1995.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Roseline Tremblay, L'ecrivain imaginaire: Essai sur le roman quebecois, 1960-1995. Collection Cahiers du Quebec. Montreal: Hurtubise HMH, 2004. 608 pp. $42.75. Despite the daunting appearance of this 608 page "essay," St. Lawrence...

Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok, and David Morrison. Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. ix + 230 pp. $40.00 cloth. Across Time and Tundra is an important new book...

Shifting Boundaries: Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Tim Schouls. Shifting Boundaries: Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. xiv + 240 pp. $80.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. In November 1996, the official transcripts of Canada's Royal...

A New Exploration of the Canadian Arctic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ronald E. Seavoy, A New Exploration of the Canadian Arctic. Surrey, B.C.: Hancock House Publishers. 192 pp., $15.00 paper. A New Exploration of the Canadian Arctic is travel adventure at its best. Seavoy's book is an account of his...

Enough to Keep Them Alive: Indian Welfare in Canada 1873-1965.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Shewell, Hugh E. Q.. Enough to Keep Them Alive: Indian Welfare in Canada 1873-1965. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xii + 415pp. $63.00 cloth, $38.00 paper. Hugh Shewell began his extensive research in the growth of the Indian...

Aboriginal Conditions: Research as a Foundation for Public Policy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Aboriginal Conditions: Research as a Foundation for Public Policy. Jerry White, Paul Maxim & Dan Beavon, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. 285 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. In fairness to the editors and contributors of this volume, I...

Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its Provinces.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Henry Milner, ed. Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its Provinces. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2004. 319 pp. $19.95 paper. In 1998 this reviewer published an article in the British-based...

Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and Multilateralism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Graham F. Walker, ed. Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and Multilateralism. Halifax: Dalhousie University Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2004. xxiv + 397 pp. $19.50 paper. The Bush Administration has pursued a...

Books received.
March 22, 2005... ART Palmer, Alexandra, ed. Fashion: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 390 pp. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. CINEMA Clandfield, David. Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana...