JAMES L. KENNY is an associate professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is currently studying state modernization policy and its impact on people and the environment in New Brunswick. ANDREW G. SECORD teaches at St. Thomas University, where he is chair of the Department of Economics and coordinator of the Environment and Society program. His research focuses on the ecological economics of public power in New Brunswick. SHIRLEY TILLOTSON is a member of the Department of History of Dalhousie University. The work published here is part of a larger, collaborative project on the cultural history of taxation in Canada since the 18th century. JACOB REMES will receive his doctorate in history from Duke University this summer and will spend 2010-11 as the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellow at the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture at Concordia University. He is currently revising his manuscript “City of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State.” GREG MARQUIS teaches Canadian history at UNB Saint John. His current research interests include urban and cultural history as well as the history of popular culture. MICHAEL BOUDREAU is chair of the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, St. Thomas University. He was recently appointed the review essays editor for Acadiensis. KIM KLEIN is an associate professor of colonial North American history and director of the Honors Program at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. MARCEL MARTEL est professeur et titulaire de la Chaire Avie Bennett Historica en histoire canadienne à l’Université York. Ses travaux portent sur le Canada contemporain, notamment les rapports entre langue et société ainsi que les politiques gouvernementales, les groupes d’intérêts et les enjeux sociaux. CHANTAL RICHARD is an assistant professor in the Department of French at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). She is the author of a number of articles, book chapters, and upcoming books on Acadian culture, history, and literature from the perspectives of cultures and languages in contact and nationalist discourse analysis.

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