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...Samuel Flagg Bemis The Inter-American System: A Canadian View . By Humphrey John P. . ( Toronto : Canadian Institute of International Affairs , 1942 . Pp. xi , 329 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...John P. Humphrey Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States: Canadian Relations, 1784-1860 . Vol. II , 1821-1835. Edited by Manning William R. . ( Washington : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 1942 . Pp. xxxviii...

...Christopher R. Boyer Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880 – 1950 . By Evans Sterling . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes...

... was orchestrated by federal government officials. The author seems to agree with government officials and the press of the time that Canadian migration to Brazilian coffee plantations was destined to fail because Canadians—many of whom were not actually Canadians but British or French nationals who had...

... by Canada. Why? According to Carl Solberg, the answer lies in the “solid institutional structure that [Canadian] prairie grain growers and the Canadian state established prior to 1930,” and, by contrast, in “decades of neglect … [that] left pampa farming in no position to expand production” (p. 232...

...; however, the laws also encouraged immigrants to seek alternative routes. In this timely and succinct study, Patrick Ettinger examines US efforts to control illicit immigration from 1882 to 1930 along the Canadian and, especially, Mexican borders. According to Ettinger, change and continuity characterized...

...Christon I. Archer Konrad dedicated considerable time and enthusiasm to the development of scholarly ties between Canada and Mexico. He served as president of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1986-87) and founded the Canadian Association of Mexican Studies. He...

... a complete run of the reports that Canadian plantation managers mailed back to the head office every one to two weeks over this 11-year period. The Ozama reports detail production and marketing activities on the plantation and the political developments in the Dominican Republic that affected the company’s...

... University Press 1997 Identities in North America is an exploration of cultural dynamics in the countries that signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. The book attempts to look beyond commercial relations in an effort to reveal the “possibility” of community among Canadians, Americans...

... Press will publish with the assistance of his friends. This is perhaps his best, and clearly his most ambitious, undertaking. Encouraged by John Fogarty, the Australian economic historian, to do this book, Carl deepened his interest in Canadian history and in recent years taught both Latin American...

.... and Mexican strategies and actions. We then move north to the Canadian prairies to analyze campaigns against the Métis and the Cree. We then return to Mexico and the continued repression and oppression of the Yaqui and Maya during the Porfiriato. Organizationally, part 2 is not as explicitly comparative...

... centuries, cover a range of approaches to the histories of the US-Mexican and the US-Canadian border regions. While the northern boundary has attracted far less attention than its southern counterpart, scholarship on both has blossomed in the past decade. These historiographies rarely intersect. Bridging...

... that it is his wish to break ground, to indicate possible lines of approach to a Marxist interpretation of Canadian History” (p.vii). This is, of course, a wholly new concept in the treatment of the subject and for this reason, if for no other, the work cannot be lightly treated. In conjunction...

...Tulio Halperín Donghi The general conclusion from Adelman’s exploration of the Argentine and Canadian examples is that the “Jeffersonian synthesis” of “unfettered accumulation and bucolic prosperity of independent workers was a myth,” and that it is time to cease invoking it “as the path...

... in that they provide a fairly comprehensive view of NAFTA’s background and the issues that face Canada, Mexico, and the United States in building a North American free trade region. The McKinney-Sharpless volume focuses on the foundation laid by the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1988 (CUFTA...

... G. Warren, for “The Paraguay Central Railway, 1856-1907,” in Inter-American Economic Affairs (Spring 1967) (Summer 1967). The luncheon speaker, John W. Holmes, Director, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, examined with urbanity and wit “Latin America from the Canadian Perspective...

... documents the previously undisclosed diversion of natural gas from the Cuiabá pipeline, built by Enron and Shell to export gas to Brazil, toward a Canadian mine such that ultimately no gas was exported to Brazil. The idea is to point out that extraction projects must be seen in relationship to other...

..., may be considered as by-products of the clash of the Anglo-American and Mexican ranching frontiers. The next part of the book dealt with the Turner thesis and also with Webb’s The Great Frontier . Professor Lower, a Canadian scholar, leveled criticism at Webb with a bitterness rarely found...

... with contributions from Waskar Ari-Chachaki and Karl Hele. The latter expertly explores how the contested and malleable nineteenth-century US-Canadian border shaped the lives of Anishinaabe and Métis peoples, whose nationality remained in flux. As importantly, Hele charts how Anishinaabe and Métis influenced US...