American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2008

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2008

"Interests but no foreign policy": Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1941-1966.
September 22, 2008... Canadians have long delighted in the notion of a diplomatic "golden age," whose Pearsonian qualities of selfless and progressive internationalism set them apart as a chosen, if perhaps smug, people. Even today, the notion retains its potency,...

Transnational Christian charity: the Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian refugee crisis, 1956-1957.
September 22, 2008... Canada's response to the 1956-1957 Hungarian refugee crisis has generally been treated by scholars as a highpoint in Canadian immigration history. In late October 1956, pro-democracy, anti-Soviet demonstrations directed at the Soviet-backed...

Are enhanced trade and enhanced security mutually exclusive? The western Canada-U.S. borderland in a post-9/11 world.
September 22, 2008... In a post-September 11, 2001, North American trade environment, dramatic change appears to be the most visible constant in the Canada-United States borderland. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989 (FTA) and the subsequent North American...

Anti-Americanism in Canada, before and after Iraq.
September 22, 2008... When Americans think about anti-Americanism, they are likely to think of angry demonstrations in Pakistan, stuffy French intellectuals, or maybe a surly cab driver they once ran into in Mexico. Most are not likely to think of Canada, at least...

Grooving the nation: 1965-1980 as a literary era in Canada.
September 22, 2008... Literary critics have long been in the business of defining literary eras. Often the task is to organize national literatures into manageable segments, providing readers with landmarks for what might otherwise seem like a sea of narrative. This...

Ailsa Henderson. Hierarchies of Belonging: National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ailsa Henderson. Hierarchies of Belonging: National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, xiii + 250 pp. $75.00 cloth. In the wake of the 2007 Consultation Commission on...

A.J.B. Johnston. Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A.J.B. Johnston. Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi + 368 pp. $19.95 paper. The long inter-imperial confrontation between Britain and France in...

Robert A. Brightman. Acadohkiwina and Acimowina: Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Robert A. Brightman. Acadohkiwina and Acimowina: Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. x + 185 pp. $29.95 paperback. Anthropology professor and Rock Cree researcher Robert A....

Reginald C. Stuart. Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Reginald C. Stuart. Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press, 2007. 404 pp. This book of prodigious scholarship examines historic and contemporary "Upper North America"...

I. S. MacLaren, ed. Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... I. S. MacLaren, ed. Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. liii + 356 pp. $45 paper. My parents once sent...

Books received.
September 22, 2008... Adamson, Alan H. Mr. Charlotte Bronte: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 188 pp. 324.95 cloth. Armstrong-Reid, Susan, and David Murray. Armies of Peace: Canada and the UNRRA...