American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2002

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2002

Editorial: greetings from the nouveau regime.(new home for American Review of Canadian Studies periodical)(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... We were honored when the ACSUS Executive Council selected Bowling Green State University as the new home for ARCS, with yours truly appointed editor. Our Canadian Studies program has grown steadily over the past decade, becoming one of the most...

The evolution of "new political history" in English-Canadian historiography: from cliometrics to cliodiversity.
September 22, 2002... Traditional political history in English-speaking Canada has been in retreat for the past twenty-five years. Where once they dominated the profession, now the scholars who teach and study past political phenomena have become, at many Canadian...

Liberty, community, and censorship: hate speech and freedom of expression in Canada and the United States.
September 22, 2002... Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of expression. First Amendment to the United States Constitution Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression... s....

Native peoples and the management of natural resources in the Pacific Northwest: a comparative assessment.
September 22, 2002... A cornerstone of the Pacific Northwest's economy has been the development of natural resources. At the same time, the management of the region's resources is shrouded in endless controversy. As such controversy rages, the position of native...

AIDS coverage in The Body Politic, 1981-1987: an annotated bibliography.
September 22, 2002... Introduction In the several years after the 1969 Stonewall riots, North America saw the flowering of the gay press in major urban centers. Toronto had numerous gay periodicals of its own prior to this time, but the city's most significant...

Tracking the snowbirds: seasonal migration from Canada to the U.S.A. and Mexico.
September 22, 2002... Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day So, little snowbird, take me with you when you go. To that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow --Gene...

Crucial and contentious: the American market and the development of the western Canadian beef cattle industry to 1948.
September 22, 2002... If I were to be offered the fulfillment of one solitary wish in the interests of western agriculture, I should without hesitation name the free admission of lighter cattle to the United States. --C.W. Peterson, Editor, Farm and Ranch...

Review essay: blackening English Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Normand Lester. Le Livre Noir du Canada Anglais. Montreal: Les editions des Intouchables, 2001, 304 PP. $24.95 paper. Black is the cover of this book and blacker still are its contents. Chances are, when "black" figures as a descriptor, the...

Canadian Communication Thought: Ten Foundational Writers. (Book Reviews: Communication).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Robert Babe. Canadian Communication Thought: Ten Foundational Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. x + 448 Pp. $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Is it likely, or even possible, that a nation could produce its own variant of...

Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic. (Book Reviews: History).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Kevin Krajick. Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic. New York: Henry Halt and Company, 2001. 442 pp. $26.00 cloth. Some twenty years ago, on a canoe trip across Canada's Barren Lands, I paddled through a...

On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871. (Book Reviews: History).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Adele Perry. On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. vii + 285 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. On the Edge of Empire provides a unique examination of the...

Diplomatic Departures: the Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93. (Book Reviews: International Relations).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nelson Michaud and Kim Richard Nossal, eds. Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001. xvii + 326 pp. $85.00 cloth. An important addition to the...

Early Canadian Stories: Short Stories in English before World War I. (Book Reviews: Literature).(A Northern Romanticism: Poets of the Confederation.)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Misao Dean, ed. Early Canadian Stories: Short Stories in English before World War I. Canadian Critical Edition. Ottawa: Tecumseh Press, 1999. $19.95 paper, $39.95 cloth. Tracy Ware, ed. A Northern Romanticism: Poets of the Confederation....

Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Assessment. (Book Reviews: Literature).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Marta Dvorak. Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Assessment. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. viii + 279 Pp. $34.95 cloth. There is a prevailing tendency in Canadian arts and letters to view Ernest Buckler as a one-book wonder...

The Assiniboine. (Book Reviews: Native Studies).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Edwin Thompson Denig. The Assiniboine. Ed. by J. N. B. Hewitt with a new introduction by David R. Miller. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2000. xxxiv + 290 pp. $24.00 paper. Miller's reprint of Denig's work on the Assiniboine...

Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. (Book Reviews: Native Studies).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Patrick Macklem. Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 334 pp. $70.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. Patrick Macklem uses a theory of distributive justice to explain why indigenous...

The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress & Who is Afraid of the State? Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power. (Book Reviews: Politics and Government).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Banting, Keith, Andrew Sharpe, and France St-Hilaire, eds. The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress. The Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2001. 313 pp. $19.95 paper. ...

Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition. (Book Reviews: Public Policy).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... W. Craig Riddell and France St-Hilaire, eds. Adapting Public Policy to a Labour Market in Transition. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2000. xx + 317 PP. $24.95 paper. This book comprises eight invited papers, all from...

Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modem Canada. (Book Reviews: Sociology).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Colin D. Howell. Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modem Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. viii + 161 PP. $15.95 paper. Wayne Gretzky, Lone Kane, Jacques Villeneuve, Larry Walker, Silken Laumann, Donovan...

Books Received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... ART McKay, Marylin J. A National Soul: Canadian Mural Painting, 1860s-1930s. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxiv + 304 pp. $65.00 cloth. BIOGRAPHY Betcherman, Lita-Rose. Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie...