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Great Plains Quarterly

1983

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Social Scientists And Farm Poverty On The North American Plains, 1933-1940, Harry C. Mcdean Jan 1983

Social Scientists And Farm Poverty On The North American Plains, 1933-1940, Harry C. Mcdean

Great Plains Quarterly

Chronic farm poverty in the Great Plains during the Great Depression of the 1930s provoked sharply differing responses from the governments of the United States and Canada. Among the many features of American and Canadian life that helped shape those different responses, the most significant was the status of the social sciences in agriculture. In nearly every category one might employ to assess their comparative status, from funding to publication record to political influence, social scientists in the United States enjoyed an impressive advantage over those in Canada by 1930. A historical appraisal of one element in this disparity-the research …


Competition For Settlers The Canadian Viewpoint, James M. Richtik Jan 1983

Competition For Settlers The Canadian Viewpoint, James M. Richtik

Great Plains Quarterly

Many aspects of Canada's relationship with the United States were summed up by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau when he told an American audience in Washington, D.C., "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even tempered is the beast ... one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Canada has always lived next to this generally friendly elephant and Canadian policy makers have never been able to shake off the need to consider what has happened or may happen south of the border. Although the context was different …