American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 1996

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 1996

Editorial: "Sharing the Continent".(Editorial)
September 22, 1996... This somewhat unusual copublished number of The American Review of Canadian Studies and the Canadian Review of American Studies had its beginnings at the 1993 meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. There, several...

Comparing Canadian and American values: new evidence from national surveys.(Seymour Martin Lipset's theory on America as country of revolution, Canada one of counter-revolution)
September 22, 1996... This article examines portions of Seymour Martin Lipset's thesis concerning the differences in the value systems of Canadians and U.S. Americans (Lipset 1963b). (1) Although Lipset's first presentation of differences in values of Canadians and...

Public policies, social institutions, and earnings inequality: Canada and the United States, 1970-1995.
September 22, 1996... Economists now agree that, since the early 1970s, there has been an unprecedented surge in income inequality and a polarization of earnings in the United States. Although employment growth in the United States has been strong over the past...

Criminal boundaries: the frontier and the contours of Upper Canadian justice, 1792-1840.
September 22, 1996... Introduction Two recent studies of Canadian-American relations pay little or no attention to the pre-Confederation period (Bothwell 1992; Hillmer and Granatstein 1991). (1) This is surprising since it was in this formative era that key...

Seeing things: race, image, and national identity in Canadian and American movies and television.
September 22, 1996... There is, on the face of it, much to warrant post-national theory's claim that European-created forms of racial hierarchy and exclusion are--even in the heart of the western nation-state--being challenged and in some measure overcome. Certainly...

Paulette Jiles's transnational railway ride: generic change and economic exchange in Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola.
September 22, 1996... Paulette Jiles's Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola: A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies Crossing Canada by Train deserves serious attention for its interrogation of Canadian-U.S. borders. The book's playful, transgressive stance...

Environmental governance in an era of participatory decision making: Canadian and American approaches.
September 22, 1996... Environmental degradation defies easy remedies. It knows neither laws nor boundaries and triggers changes within the ecosystem that are hard to trace and even harder to correct. The obvious solution is to prevent degradation in the first place....

Bucke, Whitman, and the cross-border homosocial.(Richard Maurice Bucke, Walt Whitman)
September 22, 1996... I. In 1854 Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden of a visit paid him by a wandering French-Canadian woodchopper. So taken was Thoreau with this rugged laborer--"a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man" (144), as he put it in his journal--and so...

Introducing deliberative direct democracy in Canada: learning from the American experience.(Bill 36, 1994 in British Columbia and citizens rights to initiate referenda and recall provinicial legislators)
September 22, 1996... Canada's main political parties have been sceptical if not hostile towards the idea of active citizen participation in the policy-making process. Canadian political leaders have tended to ignore proposals for direct democracy and have found...

The North American novel in the United States: Ishmael Reed's Canada.(analysis of Reed's book, Flight to Canada)
September 22, 1996... Within the perspective of the constitution of a new North American geopolitical entity, the possibility of constituting a new societal identity also appears; yet this very possibility poses a deep question for the symbolic unity of the...