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American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2007
A quarterly publication presenting original research on topics relating to Canada and the humanities and social sciences. This is the official journal of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Academic interest.
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American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2007
From the editors.
September 22, 2007... Dear Colleagues:
This issue marks the fifth since the journal made its move to Western Washington University, and we would like to share some observations with you that we find interesting.
The first is that ARCS is a truly remarkable...
Pristine purity: new political parties in Canada.
September 22, 2007... Introduction (1)
Success sells better than failure; hence new parties receive very little attention from political scientists as long as they remain marginal and fail to win seats in Parliament. Yet in the margins of the party system, they...
A survey of cross-border trade at a time of heightened security: the case of the Niagara Bi-national Region.
September 22, 2007... Introduction
In a recent article on the new border security environment facing North America, Ackleson (2003) notes that much work remains to be conducted to evaluate the complex dynamics of post-9/11 tri-national commercial relationships...
In search of an identity Canada looks North.(indigenous group and ethnic identity)
September 22, 2007...
This is perhaps one of the greatest advantages that Canada has as a
northern country: our geographic reality has helped to shape our
Canadian sense of community and mutual responsibility. The
geographical fact of our northernness...
Love among the ruins: the King of Kingsmere.(William Lyon Mackenzie King)
September 22, 2007... William Lyon Mackenzie King often said that he'd have made a good landscape architect (Hardy 1949, 344). No longer in power by October 15, 1949--his final term as Canada's prime minister had ended the preceding year--he happily graced an Ottawa...
Francophone minorities: from a homogeneous representation to the construction of a plural identity.
September 22, 2007... Introduction
Some years ago, when I first taught "Introduction aux Etudes Canadiennes" in French, I was confronted with two major challenges that I had not expected. That experience probably tells as much about me and where I am coming...
The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Blair Stonechild. The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006. ix + 189 pp. $24.95 paper.
The New Buffalo is a powerful reminder of how recent is the...
Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1946.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Malek Khouri. Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1946. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. 278 pp. $34.95 paper.
Scholarly consideration of class and...
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... M. John Lubetkin. Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii + 380 pp. $29.95.
Two interrelated stories run through John Lubetkin's Jay Cooke's...
Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Harvey Armani Whitfield. Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Press, 2006. xiii + 179 pp. $24.95 cloth.
This book examines the black experience in...
Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... David G. McCrady, Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 192 pp. $45.00 cloth.
David G. McCrady's Living with Strangers initiates a historical...
Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Arthur Kroeger. Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. xii + 176 pages. $60.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.
Hard Passage reads like an epic novel: a family saga spanning...
Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Harry H. Hiller, ed. Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 350 pp. $65.50 paper.
Almost 80 percent of Canadians live in urban areas today, in contrast to about half the population in...
Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Donald Wright, ed. Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2004. x + 570 pp. $76.60 paper.
"Where is here?" Robertson Davies famously asked of Canada. In Donald Wright's anthology of essays, speeches, and...
New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid, eds. New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xii + 411 pp. $29.95 paper, $80.00 cloth.
After September 11,...
Books received.
September 22, 2007... The American Review of Canadian Studies has received the following books for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of them for publication in these pages, contact us at arcs@wwu.edu. If the book in question has not already been spoken...