The Underhill Review

 

Fall 2008

ESSAYS

 

Frank Underhill: Intellectual in Search of a Role
Kenneth C. Dewar

 

“Landscape, Landscape, Landscape!” Debating the Function of Art and Artist in Social Reconstruction”
E. Lisa Panayotidis

 

FEATURE REVIEW ESSAY

 

American Hegemony and Creative Destruction
David E. Nye

 

Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Harvard University Press, 2007

Caroll Pursell, Technology in Postwar America: A History. Columbia University Press, 2007

 

REVIEW ESSAYS

 

The World of Our Fathers: Revisiting the Lives and Times of Macdonald and McGee
Duncan McDowall

 

Richard J. Gwynn, John A. The Man Who Made Us. Random House, 2007

David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics. McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2008


Book Worlds
Paul Keen

 

Bronwen Wilson, The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity. University of Toronto Press, 2004

Richard B. Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth–century Britain, Ireland, and America. University of Chicago Press, 2007

Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters. Belknap Press, 2005


Quelques arpents de neige? Or, How Fares the Myth of the North?
Kerry Abel

 

Leslie Dawn, National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s. University of British Columbia Press, 2007

Sherrill Grace, Canada and the Idea of North. McGill–Queen’s University Press,2007; reprint of 2002 edition

John O’Brian and Peter White, Beyond Wilderness. McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2007


War without End: The Ongoing Struggle over the American Civil War
Susan–Mary C. Grant

 

John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, Vol. 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850–1861. Cambridge University Press

Christopher Clark, Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. Ivan R. Dee, 2006

Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. University of North Carolina Press, 2006


Past Perfect, Present Imperfect, Future Indicative
Laura Brandon

 

Tom Smart, Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down their Spears. Goose Lane Editions and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 2007

Jacques Poitras, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy. Goose Lane Editions, 2007


Trudeau Through the Looking Glass
David Tough

 

B.W. Powe, Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose. Thomas Allen, 2007

George Elliott Clarke, Trudeau: Long March and Shining Path. Gaspereau Press, 2007