Title & Author:

Harold Innis and the north : appraisals and contestations / edited by William J. Buxton.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xiii, 417 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: North by Northwest: Harold Innis and "the Advancement of Knowledge of the Canadian North" / William J. Buxton1 -- Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation / Barry Gough -- Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade / Paul Heyer -- The Northern Vision of Harold Innis / Matthew Evenden -- Harold Innis's Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples and the Economics of Conservation / George Colpitts -- A Confidential Memorandum on the Conservation of Wild Life in the Mackenzie District, Prepared at the request of Mr Hoyes Lloyd and submitted to him by Mr Harold A. Innis of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto / Harold A. Innis -- Innis, Biss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921-1965 / Liza Piper -- Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba / Jim Mochoruk -- The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis / Jeff A. Webb -- Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928-1944 / William J. Buxton -- North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council's Arctic Survey / Jeffrey D. Brison -- Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies / William J. Buxton- -- Northern Enlightenment: Innis's 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath / William J. Buxton -- Towards the "Second Renaissance": A Russian Perspective on Innis's Russian Diary / Sergei Arkhipov and William J. Buxton -- Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon / Shirley Roburn -- Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom / Peter C. Van Wyck
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation. Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey, and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted professional identity.--pub. desc.

ISBN:

9780773541641 (bound)
0773541640
9780773541672 (pbk.)
0773541675
9780773588769 (electronic)
9780773588776 (electronic)

Subject:

Innis, Harold A., 1894-1952.
Innis, Harold A. (Harold Adams), 1894-1952
Innis, Harold Adams 1894-1952
Innis, Harold Adams, 1894-1952.
Economists Canada Biography.
Historians Canada Biography.
Mass media specialists Canada Biography.
Économistes Canada Biographies.
Historiens Canada Biographies.
Spécialistes des médias Canada Biographies.
Economic history.
Economists.
Historians.
Historiography.
Mass media specialists.
Geschichtsschreibung
Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Historiografi.
Ekonomer.
Historiker.
Canada, Northern Historiography.
Canada, Northern Economic conditions 20th century.
Canada (Nord) Historiographie.
Canada (Nord) Conditions économiques 20e siècle.
Canada.
Northern Canada.
Kanada Nord
Kanada

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Buxton, William, 1947- editor of compilation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 284029
Call No.: FC3956 .H38 2013
Notes: hbk.
Status: Available