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- English
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About this book
Exploring a celebrated Canadian political economist through a northern lens.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Copyright
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 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 ADAMS 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 AND WILLIAM J. BUXTON
- 14 Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon SHIRLEY ROBURN
- 15 Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom PETER C. VAN WYCK
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index