American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2004

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2004

"Like rain drops rolling down new paint": Chinese immigrants and the problem of national identity in the work of Emily Carr.
September 22, 2004... On September 7, 1907, in Vancouver, the Chinese community was violently attacked by a sprawling mass of primarily white, working-class Canadians whose anger had been fuelled by the belief that that community had interfered with and undermined...

From special relationship to Third Option: Canada, the U.S., and the Nixon Shock.
September 22, 2004... The articulation of the so-called Nixon Shock of August 15, 1971, more formally called the New Economic Program (NEP), was an epochal event in the history of Canada-United States relations, that stimulated Ottawa to consider a new world in...

Edward S. Curtis's "representations": then and now.
September 22, 2004... Introduction This paper concerns the documentary photographs of Edward S. Curtis (1865-1952) and their appropriation by three contemporary Canadian artists. "To take something for one's own use" is one meaning of appropriation, according...

Government use of strategic litigation: the Alberta Exported Gas Tax Reference.
September 22, 2004... This study examines how the Alberta government used litigation--the Alberta Exported Gas Tax Reference--as part of its efforts to combat the federal government's National Energy Program (NEP) in the early 1980s; in doing so, the study posits...

2005 ACSUS distinguished dissertation award.
September 22, 2004... THE ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES (ACSUS) seeks to honor outstanding doctoral research on Canada at American institutions. The ACSUS Distinguished Dissertation Award is granted biennially in conjunction with the...

Religious organizations and the "relocation" of persons of Japanese ancestry in North America: evaluating advocacy.
September 22, 2004... While both Canadian and American historians have offered a variety of explanations for the causes of the relocation of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II, they show remarkable unity in the belief that few Americans or Canadians...

Voices of place: the incorrigible project of writing provincial and state history.(Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta)(Montana: High, Wide and Handsome)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Aritha van Herk. Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. Toronto: Penguin Books, 2001. xiii + 434 pp. $36.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Joseph Kinsey Howard. Montana: High, Wide and Handsome. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison...

Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behaviour.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Andrew Schmitz, Hartley Furtan, and Kathy Baylis. Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behaviour. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xxvi + 511 pp. $125.00 cloth. This well-structured textbook is aimed at advanced...

Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-1961.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ronald. W. Hawker. Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-1961. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. 236 pp. $24.95 cloth. Northwest Coast First Nations art has instant recognizability. From the...

Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Frances W. Kaye. Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003. xxiii + 301 pp. $34.95 paper. This major study of cultural production in western Canada by an American...

The Cost of Climate Policy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Jaccard, John Nybuer, and Bryn Sadownik. The Cost of Climate Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. xxii + 242 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The back cover aptly summarizes the issues which are addressed in the book: Reducing...

Sojourning Sisters: Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jean Barman. Sojourning Sisters: Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. vii + 304 pp. $50.00 cloth. Sojourning Sisters recounts the lives of two Nova Scotia-born sisters who made the not...

A Very Remarkable Sickness: Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670-1846.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul Hackett. A Very Remarkable Sickness: Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670-1846. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. xvii + 315 pp. $24.95 paper. The study of disease in general, and virgin soil epidemics in particular, is...

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kathryn Morse. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. $29.95 cloth. In August 1896, the discovery of gold in...

Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gerald Sider. Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003. xviii + 344 pp. Between History and Tomorrow is an expanded and updated edition of Gerald...

Censorship in Canadian Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Cohen. Censorship in Canadian Literature. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xii + 205 p. $55.00 cloth. In spite of its broad title, this book includes five essays on only five case studies related to censorship in...

Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Quebecois Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul Perron. Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Quebecois Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xvii + 338 pp. $60.00 cloth. The dust jacket of Paul Perron's Narratology and Text:...

Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lloyd Axworthy. Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. xi + 450 pp. $37.95 cloth. Lloyd Axworthy served as Canadian Foreign Minister for the four years and eight months preceding the autumn of 2000....

Cultures at War: Moral Conflicts in Western Democracies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... T. Alexander Smith and Raymond Tatalovich. Cultures at War: Moral Conflicts in Western Democracies. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003. 302 pp. $19.95 paper. Smith and Tatalovich have undertaken a Herculean task. Cultures at War...

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stuart N. Soroka. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. ix + 156 pp. $27.95 paper. Professor Soroka has crafted a well-structured analysis of linkages between the media, public, and policy agendas in Canada using an...

Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sherene H. Razack, ed. Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society. Toronto: between the lines, 2002. 256 pp. $24.95 paper. Race, Space and the Law explores how "place becomes race" through the law in the Canadian experience....

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2004... ART Geller, Peter. Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 280 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS Melnyk, George, ed. Canada and the New American...