American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 2006

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 2006

Mitigating but not rethinking: George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas, and the Great Plains.
March 22, 2006... The careers of George W. Norris of Nebraska and Tommy Douglas of Saskatchewan, two extraordinary Prairie progressives, cover nearly a century of political activism, and tell us something about both what was possible and what was never even...

U.S. newspaper coverage of the Canadian health system--a case of seriously mistaken identity?
March 22, 2006... Canada's health system is an important reflection of its values, principles, and its overall national character. It. is said to be a "key distinguishing characteristic" of the country according to a Canadian Senate report in September 2001...

Nathanson, Zukor, and Famous Players: movie exhibition in Canada, 1920-1941.(Adolph Zukor)(Odeon Theatres)
March 22, 2006... For many years, during the heyday of the indoor, single-screen facility, exhibitors focused on providing the public a quality movie-going experience, in terms of the films screened and the environment in which those films (1) were "consumed"...

Book review essay: an essay for its times.(The European Roots of Canadian Identity)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Philip Resnick. The European Roots of Canadian Identity. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005. 125 pp. $19.95 paper. Sometimes, it is when you are thousands of kilometres away from home that you begin to see things in a new light....

Book review essay: Canadian politics readers.(The Real World of Canadian Politics: Cases in Process and Policy, 4th ed.)(Reinventing Canada: Politics of the 21st Century)(Canadian Politics, 4th ed.)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Robert M. Campbell, Leslie A. Pal, and Michael Hewlett, eds., The Real World of Canadian Politics: Cases in Process and Policy 4th ed. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2004, 349 pp. $25.95. paper. Janine Brodie and Linda Trimble, eds.,...

Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Terry Crowley. Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xiii + 320 pp. $63.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. When Oscar Douglas Skelton crashed into a streetcar on the corner of...

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Merna Forster. 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004. 319 pp. $21.99 paper. Merna Forster's compendium of remarkable women in Canada's history is a deliberately accessible book that seeks, within...

On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Dave Dempsey. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. xi + 304 pp. $29.95 paper. The Great Lakes are a dominating influence in the histories of Canada and the United States....

This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands, eds. This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. xx + 386 pp. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Looking to the intersections between gender, the...

Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health Care System.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Michael Rachlis. Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health Care System. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2004. xiv + 418 pp. $32.95 cloth. There is no aspect of Canadian life more emblematic of Canadian...

ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Blair, Jennifer, Daniel Coleman, Kate Higginson, and Lorraine York, eds. ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2005. 440 pp. $34.95 paper. ...

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Terry Copp. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xv + 344 pp. $29.95 paper. It is never easy to review a "revisionist monograph when the reviewer's own work is characterized by the author as...

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Jeffrey A. Keshen. Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. x + 389 pp. $34-95 cloth. To say that the Second World War was Canada's "good war" may raise some eyebrows. Such a comment, of course,...

Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Edward Eden and Dee Goertz, eds. Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. 323 pp. $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. Edward Eden and Dee Goertz have edited a unique volume of...

Canadians Are Not Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Katherine L. Morrison. Canadians Are Not Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2003. xix + 328 pages. $19.99 paper. Of the three approaches to American-Canadian societal comparisons (measurable values and...

On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Serra Tinic. On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xvii + 207 pp. $24.95 paper. Since its inception, Canadian broadcasting policy has been shaped by a number of...

Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard Daly. Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. xxix + 352 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The Indigenous land claims case, Delgamuukw et at. v. The Queen in the Right of the...

New Owners in Their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Robert McPherson. New Owners in Their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. 420 pages. $49.95 cloth. A beautiful map papers the inside cover of this quiet, interesting book. The map tells...

The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Edward Sapir, et al. The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters. Part 9 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts. Hull, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2004. 456 pp. $45.00 paper. Between 1910-1923 Anthropologist/Linguist Edward Sapir collected...

The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression and Emancipation.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon. The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression and Emancipation. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003. 176 pp. $33.50 paper. In this work, Schissell and Wotherspoon set out to...

Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard W. Thatcher. Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. vi + 407 pp. $35.00 paper, $65.00 cloth. While health and social problems...

Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Daniel Drache, Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2004. Published three years after 9/11, this book addresses changes in Canadian/U.S. border relations that resulted from...

Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ross Lambertson. Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 523 pp. $75.00 paper. Repression and Resistance is the first in-depth study of an exciting new field in...

Le Quebec et la laicite: Avancees et derives.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Guy Durand. Le Quebec et la laicite: Avancees et derives. Montreal: Les Editions Varia, Collection > 2004. 122 pp. $14.95 paper. Guy Durand looks apprehensively towards a future that no longer resembles the progressive Quebec of his adult...

Social Policy and the Ethic of Care.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Olena Hankivsky. Social Policy and the Ethic of Care. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 192 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Olena Hankivesky's Social Policy and the Ethic of Care contrasts an ethic of care with an ethic of justice and examines...

Understanding Social Inequality: Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Julie McMullin. Understanding Social Inequality: Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2004. x + 365 pp. $57.95 paper. There are several noteworthy and unique...

Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives, 4th ed.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Barry D. McPherson. Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives, 4th edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2004. be + 474 pp. $64.95 paper According to demographic projections done by the United Nations, "One out of ten...

Books received.
March 22, 2006... ANTHROPOLOGY Palsson, Gisli. Travelling Passions: The Hidden Lifes of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2006. 392 pp. $35.00 cloth. ART Halkes, Petra. Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and...