American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2006

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2006

Time to say hello.
September 22, 2006... Dear Colleagues: I will begin my first issue of ARCS and our collaboration by expressing my gratitude to several people. First, I would like to thank the governing boards of ACSUS and the journal for their support and, of course, their...

Cross-border crime stories: American media, Canadian law, and murder in the Internet Age.
September 22, 2006... This essay examines tensions between American and Canadian legal and journalistic cultures through a discussion of Canada's best known serial murder case. The Internet and the rapid global dissemination of media texts have enabled American news...

The fighting civil servant: making sense of the Canadian superhero.
September 22, 2006... When Canada Post released a series of five Canadian comic book-based superhero stamps in 1996, it seemed something of a symbolic victory for the otherwise largely marginalized Canadian comics industry. In looking more deeply, however, we see...

The two Addies: maternity and language in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.
September 22, 2006... In a 1973 interview with Graeme Gibson, Alice Munro declares that "the writers who first excited me were the writers of the American South, because I felt there a country being depicted that was like my own.... I mean the part of the country I...

"The solution is aircraft": aircraft and the political economy of Canadian Forest Fires.
September 22, 2006... Introduction: Fire and the Northern Economy The paradoxes are two, and both are well grounded in Canadian experience. The first is that institutions must reconcile the dynamics of political confederation with the rhythms of the boreal...

"I am Canadian": truth of citizenship in Joy Kogawa's Obasan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... While history is tied to our identity (1) and historical sources are necessary fragments in piecing together a collective history, a personal perspective helps us to "see" the past more clearly. (2) Most postmodernists do not deny that certain...

Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Warren A. Perrin. Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation. Opelousas, LA: Andrepoont Publishing, L.L.C., 2005. 208 pp. $18.50 paper. Acadian Redemption is the first book ever devoted to Joseph dit...

Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown.(Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... David Mackenzie, ed. Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xii + 452 pp. $35.00 paper. Martin F. Auger. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and "Enemy...

Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck, eds. Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North. Calgary: University of Calgary Press and Arctic Institute of North America, 2005....

The Collected Works of George Grant, vol. 3.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Arthur Davis and Henry Roper, eds. The Collected Works of George Grant. Volume 3 (1960-1969). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxv + 795 pp. $125.00 cloth. George Grant is surely among the most important thinkers, and is very...

Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John McLaren, A. R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright, eds. Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. 352 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.00 paperback. Despotic Dominion: Property...

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... D'Arcy Jenish. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. vii + 309 pp. $29.95 cloth. With a project now well underway to celebrate the bicentennial of David Thompson's...

Francophone Women Film Directors.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Janis L. Pallister and Ruth A. Hottell. Francophone Women Film Directors. Madison: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2005. 292 pp. $55.00 cloth. Francophone Women Film Directors is a follow-up volume to Janis Pallister's...

Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... James P. Bickerton, Stephen Brooks, and Alain-G. Gagnon. Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. x + 184 pp. $27.95 paper. Historically, Canadian...

Geopolitical Integrity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Hugh Segal. Geopolitical Integrity. Montreal: The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), 2005. ii + 336 pp. $29.95 paper. Integrity conveys a double meaning for the contributors to this volume. On one level it references a...

Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Peter Urmetzer. Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. x + 232 pp. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. The phenomenon of economic globalization is often...

With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Celia Haig-Brown and David A. Nock, eds. With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada. Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 376 pp. $85.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. This highly...

Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault, eds. Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. vii + 440 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. It is a delicious irony that borders in a global...

A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Jonathan Wagner. A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 284 pp. $85.00 cloth. Jonathan Wagner, in his work A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939,...

Le lys et le lotus: Les relations du Quebec avec la Chine de 1650 a 1950.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Serge Granger. Le lys et le lotus: Les relations du Quebec avec la Chine de 1650 a 1950. Montreal: VLB Editeur, 2005. 192 pp. C$21.95 paper. "No other country, with the possible exceptions of their mother countries and their American...

Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John Chi-Kit Wong. Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936. Toronto: University of Toronto press, 2005. vi + 234 pp. $65.00 cloth, 32.95 paper. John Chi-Kit Wong's monograph is a welcome addition to the...

Canada and the New American Empire.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... George Melnyk, ed. Canada and the New American Empire. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. xix + 253 pp. $19.95 paper. In March of 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other allied nations made the fateful decision,...

The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Adam Chapnick. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. xiv + 210 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. In The Middle Power Project, Adam Chapnick deftly...

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxxv + 748 pp. $79.95 cloth. As the former senior editor at the University of Toronto Press, Gerald Hallowell was an eminently...

Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Chris MacKenzie. Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. 304 pp. $29.95 cloth. The subject matter of Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada (henceforth Pro-Family...

Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Sam Solecki. Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. iii + 219 pp. $60.00 cloth. In Ragas of Longing, the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry, Sam Solecki presents a...

Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... William Barr. Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. xiv + 386 pp. $34.95 paper. Biographies of noteworthy Canadians often include those of statesmen,...