American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 2008

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 2008

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... Dear Colleagues: I hope that this issue of ARCS finds you in good spirits, and it is in good spirits that we at the journal look to the future. As this new year unfolds, we are beginning to initiate the changes in the journal's operations...

Fellow British subjects or colonial "others"? Race, empire, and ambivalence in Canadian representations of India in the early twentieth century.
March 22, 2008... In the early twentieth century, English-Canadian schoolchildren learned to divide the British Empire into "the white man's country" and "the coloured man's country." According to one geography textbook, India clearly belonged in the latter...

Minority government in Canada: the Stephen Harper experience.
March 22, 2008... "The art of minority government is engineering defeat on the most favourable terms." (1) Canada's politics, consistent with Britain's history under the same plurality electoral system (known as "first-past-the-post," or FPP), considers...

The redcoat and the ranger: screening bilateral friendship in Cecil B. DeMille's North West Mounted Police (1940).
March 22, 2008... On October 21, 1940, the world premiere of North West Mounted Police (JWMP) took place in Regina, Saskatchewan, with much fanfare. This epic western, which was producer/director Cecil B. DeMille's first foray into shooting entirely in...

Defense against help: explaining Canada-U.S. security relations.
March 22, 2008... A core concept in international relations theory, especially among realists, is that to survive in an anarchical world, states must rely on self-help. As John Mearsheimer explains, [S]tates cannot depend on others for their own security....

Canada-Quebec immigration agreements (1971-1991) and their impact on federalism.
March 22, 2008... Introduction In the period 1971-1991, Quebec was the province that constantly pressed and negotiated with the federal government for more provincial rights in the field of immigration. The province signed four immigration agreements with...

Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Robert Thacker. Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives. Toronto: McClelland, 2005. 604 pp. $39.99 cloth. "There is always a starting point in reality," Alice Munro told an interviewer. In Robert Thacker's expansive biography of Munro, this is the...

Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Judy Thompson. Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 207 pp. In 1884, at the age of nineteen,...

Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Graeme Wynn. Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABL-CLIO (Nature and Human Societies Series), 2007. xxi + 503 pp. $85.00 cloth. ABL-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series continues its...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada.(A Question of Commitment: Children's Rights in Canada)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe. The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. ix + 244 pp. $38.95 paper. R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, eds. A Question of Commitment: Children's...

Nellcott Is My Darling.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Golda Fried. Nellcott Is My Darling. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2005. 178 pp. $14.95 paper. Written in an invigorating and fresh style, Golda Fried's first novel, Nellcott Is My Darling, is a book that her readers will not want to put...

The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Ken Hoeppner. The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. xiv + 308 pp. $29.95. Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the rural history of the Canadian West. Much of their work...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation: Volume 1 (1966-1986).(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Louise H. Forsyth, ed. Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation: Volume 1 (1966-1986). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. xviii + 570 pp. $55.00 paper. The 20 years between 1966 and 1986 witnessed the birth and rapid...

Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds. Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 408 pp. $42.95 paper. The second edition of Canadian Federalism: Performance,...

British Columbia: Land of Promises.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Patricia E. Roy and John Herd Thompson. British Columbia: Land of Promises. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada (Oxford Illustrated History of Canada Series), 2005. 216 pp. $36.95 paper. In this richly illustrated book's...

The Washington Diaries 1981-1989.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Allan Gotlieb. The Washington Diaries 1981-1989. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. v + 649 pp. $39.99 cloth, $24.99 paper. This rather large volume carries with it a certain mustiness--a scent of memories from a frenetic past that have...

How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization and Identity.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... David Taras, Maria Bakardjieva, and Frits Pannekoek, eds. How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization and Identity. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xxii + 328 pp. $39.95 paper. As advances in communication technology and...

Canadian Cultural Exchange / Echanges culturels au Canada: Translation and Transculturation / Traduction et transculturation.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier, eds. Canadian Cultural Exchange / Echanges culturels au Canada: Translation and Transculturation / Traduction et transculturation. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. xxv + 401 pp. $85.00...

Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick, eds. Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. x + 326 pp. $85 cloth, $29.95 paper. How do...

Books received.
March 22, 2008... The American Review of Canadian Studies has received the following books for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of them for publication in these pages, contact us at arcs@wwu.edu. If the book in question has not already been spoken...