American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2003

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2003

Consequences of the unreformed Canadian electoral system (1).
September 22, 2003... Introduction In a classic article on the electoral system in Canada, Cairns (1968) argued that the single-member plurality electoral system (SMP) for choosing federal Members of Parliament had harmful effects on the party system. The...

"Of war machines and ghetto scenes": English-Canadian Nationalism and the Guess who's "American Woman".
September 22, 2003... "American Woman, stay away from me." (1) Grungy and over-driven, The Guess Who's 1970 title track "American Woman" acted as a Canadian call-to-arms, an unofficial national anthem, and became the most popular song in Canadian rock 'n' roll...

The Bank of Canada's reaction function.
September 22, 2003... Introduction The Bank of Canada (BOC) is charged with influencing the price level, employment, and growth of the Canadian economy. In recent years the BOC has developed a reputation of being very concerned with a low rate of inflation,...

Lionel Groulx and Franco-America (1).
September 22, 2003... Recent work on the intellectual history of Franco-America (2) has revealed the richness and complexity of the Franco-American variant of traditional French Canadian nationalism, which scholars generally refer to as l'ideologie de la survivance....

Why shoot the gopher? Reading the politics of a prairie icon.
September 22, 2003... How do you grow a prairie town? The gopher was the model. Stand up straight: telephone poles grain elevators church steeples. Vanish suddenly: the gopher was the model. --Robert Kroetsch, Seed Catalogue In...

Book review essay: searching for identity in Canadian film ... again.(Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film)(Canadian National Cinema)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Wyndham Wise, ed., Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Preface, forward + 272 pp. $23.95 paper. Christopher E. Gittings, Canadian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 2002, ix + 338 pp....

Book review essay: recent Canadian political history.(Canadian Political Parties: Historical Readings)(The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia, Regionalism, and Canadian Unity )(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Dan Azoulay, ed., Canadian Political Parties: Historical Readings (Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1999), 482 pp. $24.95 paper. Philip Resnick, The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia, Regionalism, and Canadian Unity (Vancouver: UBC Press,...

Across This Land: A Regional Geography Of The United States and Canada.(Geography)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... John C. Hudson. Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xxi + 474 pp. $29.95 cloth. Regional geography is a sub-field of geography that exposes students...

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours 1925-1954.(History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Robert A. Campbell. Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours 1925-1954. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Studies in Gender and History. 135 pp. $50.00 cloth. What could be more Canadian than drinking...

Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970.(History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Philip Massolin. Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. x + 357 pp. $60.00 cloth. With a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary source...

Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps.(History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Derek Hayes. Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 272 pp. $60 cloth. Derek Hayes's Historical Atlas of Canada is a handsome and well-produced book....

The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest.(History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Marlene Shore, ed. The Contested Past: Reading Canada's History, Selections from the Canadian Historical Review. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 336 pp. $60.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The Contested Past represents a unique volume...

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing.(Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Margaret Atwood. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 219 pp. $18.00 cloth. In a recent cartoon in The New Yorker, a serious, bespectacled male character, nattily dressed in a...

The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest.(Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Laurie Ricou. The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 2002. xv + 256 pp. + 16 p. color insert. $21.95 paper. There's been an explosion, of late, in books focused on place....

La Voyageuse et la Prisonniere: Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lori Saint-Martin, La Voyageuse et la Prisonniere: Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes. Montreal: Boreal, 2002. 390 pp. $29.95 paper. Although Lori Saint-Martin's book is intriguingly subtitled "Gabrielle Roy and the question of women,"...

Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Short Introduction.(Native Studies)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Paul Robert Magocsi, ed. Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Short Introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. viii + 308 pp. $60.00 cloth. In our electronic age, with massive amounts of raw data and self-serving commercial sites...

The Myth of the Sacred: The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada.(Politics and Government)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Patrick James, Donald Abelson, and Michael Lusztig, Eds. The Myth of the Sacred: The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xiii + 256 pp. $70.00 cloth,...

An Inside Look at External Affairs during the Trudeau Years.(Politics and Government)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Mark MacGuigan. An Inside Look at External Affairs during the Trudeau Years. P. Whitney Lackenbauer, ed. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xxvii + 208 pp. $34.95 cloth. The fourth of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's five...

Books received.
September 22, 2003... ART Christensen, Lisa. The Lake O'Hara Art of J.E.H. MacDonald and Hiker's Guide. Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2003. 136 pp. $29.95 paper. Hawker, Ronald W. Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-1961....