American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 1999

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 1999

Still unresolved after fifty years: the Northwest Passage in Canadian-American relations, 1946-1998.
September 22, 1999... Introduction "The sailor dream of five centuries: The Near Way to the Far East is North."(1) Canadians have a near-mystical bond to their Arctic, a frigid vastness that has sparked the Canadian imagination, inspired and shaped a...

Development of property rights on the Canadian and American mining frontiers.
September 22, 1999... Introduction It has sometimes been asserted that the history of mining in North America represents a kind of pure democracy, in which mining law was created by the miners without intervention from lawyers or politicians, and particularly...

Canada, the United States, and the Organization of American States.
September 22, 1999... Insufficient scholarly attention has been accorded Canada's relationship with the Organization of American States (OAS), notwithstanding the fact that it has been a full-fledged member for almost ten years now. Not surprisingly, then, even less...

Politics of the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal.
September 22, 1999... The Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal (SSJBM) is a Quebecois nationalist organization. For more than 160 years its members have been promoting the interests of Francophone Canadians. Today the voice of this two thousand-member...

Whither the nation-state in the twenty-first century? (The search for political space by Warren Magnussen; Beyond sovereignty by David J. Elkins).
September 22, 1999... Warren Magnussen. The Search for Political Space: Globalization, Social Movements and the Urban Political Experience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xii + 373 pp. 373 pp. $21.95 paper. David J. Elkins. Beyond Sovereignty:...

Ambiguous champion: Canada and South Africa in the Trudeau and Mulroney years.
September 22, 1999... Linda Freeman. The Ambiguous Champion: Canada and South Africa in the Trudeau and Mulroney Years. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xiii + 466 pp. $24.95 paper. This volume, written by Professor Freeman of the Department of...

Decline of deference: Canadian value change in cross-national perspective.
September 22, 1999... Neil Nevitte. The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-National Perspective. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1996. $19.95 paper. Drawing upon a quite familiar and influential research program initiated by Ronald...

Defying conventional wisdom: political movements and popular contention against North American free trade.
September 22, 1999... Jeffrey M. Ayres. Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and Popular Contention against North American Free Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xiv + 209 pp. $55.00 cloth, $15.00 paper. This ambitious book explores...