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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buxton, William J., Author.

Contributor:

Buxton, William J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Innis, Harold A. (Harold Adams), 1894-1952.

Innis, Harold A.

Economists--Canada--Biography.

Economists.

Historians--Canada--Biography.

Historians.

Mass media specialists--Canada--Biography.

Mass media specialists.

Canada, Northern--Historiography.

Canada, Northern.

Canada, Northern--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction: North by Northwest: Harold Innis and "the Advancement of Knowledge of the Canadian North" / William J. Buxton

1 Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation / Barry Gough

2 Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade / Paul Heyer

3 The Northern Vision of Harold Innis / Matthew Evenden

4 Harold Innis's Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples and the Economics of Conservation / George Colpitts

5 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

6 Innis, Biss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921-1965 / Liza Piper

7 Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba / Jim Mochoruk

8 The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis / Jeff A. Webb

9 Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928-1944 / William J. Buxton

10 North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council's Arctic Survey / Jeffrey D. Brison

11 Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies / William J. Buxton

12 Northern Enlightenment: Innis's 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath / William J. Buxton

13 Towards the "Second Renaissance": A Russian Perspective on Innis's Russian Diary / Sergei Arkhipov a d William J. Buxton

14 Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon / Shirley Roburn

15 Innis and Ion the Highway of the Atom / Peter C. Van Wyck.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-8876-0

OCLC:

857960080