Harold Innis and the North : appraisals and contestations

Buxton, William J. (Author). Buxton, William, 1947- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780773541672 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 417 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation -- 2. Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade -- 3. The Northern Vision of Harold Innis -- 4. Harold Innis's Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples and the Economics of Conservation -- 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 -- 6. Innis, Bliss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921-1965 -- 7. Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba -- 8. The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis -- 9. Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928-1944 -- 10. North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council's Arctic Survey -- 11. Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies -- 12. Northern Enlightenment: Innis's 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath -- 13. Towards the "Second Renaissance": A Russian Perspective on Innis's Russian Diary -- 14. Innis and Enviormental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon -- 15. Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom