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Harold Innis and the NorthAppraisals and Contestations |
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Exploring a celebrated Canadian political economist through a northern lens.
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.
Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov (North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn (Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).
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.
Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov (North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn (Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).
Details
432 Pages, 6 x 9
9 b&w photos, 1 drawing, 1 diagram
ISBN 9780773541641
August 2013
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
"Innis recognized the central importance of the north to the Canadian nation, and climate change debates and contemporary geo-politics have given us fresh reasons to revisit his perspectives. This book is a useful contribution to a range of discussions about nature, the nation, and development." Kerry Abel, Department of History, Carleton University
“Buxton and his fellow authors reveal how large a role the North played in Innis’s own imagination, as both an integral part of the Canadian economy and a counterbalance to Americanizing tendencies elsewhere in Canada.” Charlotte Gray, Canada’s History
“Innis remains an important figure for those hoping to understand Canada’s resource economy, which makes this book, edited by William Buxton and his eleven contributors, a timely volume.” Manitoba History
“Harold Innis and the North takes readers deep inside Innis’s complex and sometimes contradictory visions of northern Canada, identifying the manifold ways he shaped, and was shaped by, prevailing discourses on the region during the interwar years. With lively and engaging essays, Buxton’s volume is one of the few edited collections that can be described as a good read, a significant and engaging interpretation of Innis’s northern scholarship that will appeal to anyone who is interested in the idea of the North in Canadian history.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
“Buxton and his fellow authors reveal how large a role the North played in Innis’s own imagination, as both an integral part of the Canadian economy and a counterbalance to Americanizing tendencies elsewhere in Canada.” Charlotte Gray, Canada’s History
“Innis remains an important figure for those hoping to understand Canada’s resource economy, which makes this book, edited by William Buxton and his eleven contributors, a timely volume.” Manitoba History
“Harold Innis and the North takes readers deep inside Innis’s complex and sometimes contradictory visions of northern Canada, identifying the manifold ways he shaped, and was shaped by, prevailing discourses on the region during the interwar years. With lively and engaging essays, Buxton’s volume is one of the few edited collections that can be described as a good read, a significant and engaging interpretation of Innis’s northern scholarship that will appeal to anyone who is interested in the idea of the North in Canadian history.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
William J. Buxton is professor of communication studies at Concordia University and co-editor of Harold Innis in the New Century.
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: North by Northwest: Harold Innis and “the Advancement of Knowledge of the Canadian North” 3
William J. Buxton
1 Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation 51
Barry Gough
2 Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade 65
Paul Heyer
3 The Northern Vision of Harold Innis 73
Matthew Evenden
4 Harold Innis’s Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples and the Economics of Conservation 100
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 122
Harold A. Innis
6 Innis, Biss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921-1965 127
Liza Piper
7 Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba 149
Jim Mochoruk
8 The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis 167
Jeff A. Webb
9 Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928-1944 186
William J. Buxton
10 North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council’s Arctic Survey 211
Jeffrey D. Brison
11 Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies 227
William J. Buxton
12 Northern Enlightenment: Innis’s 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath 246
William J. Buxton
13 Towards the “Second Renaissance”: A Russian Perspective on Innis’s Russian Diary 273
Sergei Arkhipov and William J. Buxton
14 Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon 295
Shirley Roburn
15 Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom 326
Peter C. Van Wyck
Bibliography 355
Contributors 387
Index 393
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: North by Northwest: Harold Innis and “the Advancement of Knowledge of the Canadian North” 3
William J. Buxton
1 Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation 51
Barry Gough
2 Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade 65
Paul Heyer
3 The Northern Vision of Harold Innis 73
Matthew Evenden
4 Harold Innis’s Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples and the Economics of Conservation 100
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 122
Harold A. Innis
6 Innis, Biss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921-1965 127
Liza Piper
7 Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba 149
Jim Mochoruk
8 The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis 167
Jeff A. Webb
9 Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928-1944 186
William J. Buxton
10 North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council’s Arctic Survey 211
Jeffrey D. Brison
11 Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies 227
William J. Buxton
12 Northern Enlightenment: Innis’s 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath 246
William J. Buxton
13 Towards the “Second Renaissance”: A Russian Perspective on Innis’s Russian Diary 273
Sergei Arkhipov and William J. Buxton
14 Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon 295
Shirley Roburn
15 Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom 326
Peter C. Van Wyck
Bibliography 355
Contributors 387
Index 393
