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Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises eight texts by Innis, including his 1930 biography of Pond as well as his writings on the explorer's myriad activities. The book also features a collection of eight letters exchanged between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773-75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harvey Fleming. Situating Innis's writings on Pond in relation to his broader body of biographical work, Buxton interprets what these texts tell us about Innis's intellectual practice, historiography, and the writing of biography. The book explores how Innis's perspectives shifted with changing intellectual and political circumstances and shows that his advocacy of Pond as an unrecognized "father of confederation" challenged conventional views of Canadian nation-building. A critical edition of previously overlooked biographical texts, Harold Innis on Peter Pond traces what these writings disclose about the biographer's character and values even as they discuss their subject.
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• Foreword Introduction * The Teaching of Economic History in Canada * The Work of Thorstein Veblen * An Introduction to the Economic History of the Maritimes, Including Newfoundland and New England * The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Fishery in Newfoundland * Transportation as a Factor in Canadian Economic History * Government Ownership and the Canadian Scene * Interrelations between the Fur Trade of Canada and the United States * An Introduction to the Economic History of Ontario from Outpost to Empire * The Canadian Economy and the Depression * Unused Capacity as a Factor in Canadian Economic History * An Introduction to Canadian Economic Studies * Labour in Canadian Economic History * Significant Factors in Canadian Economic Development * The Historical Development of the Dairy Industry in Canada * Transportation in the Canadian Economy * Economic Trends in Canadian-American Relations * The Lumber Trade in Canada * The Penetrative Powers of the Price System * The Wheat Economy * The Changing Structure of the Canadian Market * Recent Developments in the Canadian Economy * The Canadian Mining Industry * Imperfect Regional Competition and Political Institutions on the North Atlantic Seaboard * Liquidity Preference as a Factor in Industrial Development * Decentralization and Democracy * The Political Implications of Unused Capacity * The Church in Canada * Great Britain, the United States, and Canada Index.
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Harold A. Innis helped to found the field of Canadian economic history. He is best known for the "staples thesis" which dominated the discourse of Canadian economic history for decades. This volume collects Innis' published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries. These essays capture Innis' ever evolving views on the practices and uses of economic history as well as Canadian economic history. The new introduction written by prominent historian Matthew Evenden provides a fresh take on Innis life's work and situates the essays in the context of his scholarship as well as recent studies on Canadian economic history. This volume offers invaluable insight into one of Canada's most original thinkers and his interpretation of our nation's history.
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• Acknowledgements Foreword (by Anne Innis Dagg) Introduction Part I - Memoir of Harold Adams Innis (covering the years 1894 - 1922) Preface to the Memoir (by Anne Innis Dagg)
• Chapter 1: Ancestors and Parents
• Chapter 2: School and Early Career
• Chapter 3: Battle
• Chapter 4: After the War Part II - World War I Writings and Correspondence
• Chapter 5: 1916
• Chapter 6: 1917
• Chapter 7: 1918-1919 List of Persons Bibliography Index Abbreviations About the Contributors.
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Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian and media scholar. Part I, Innis's autobiographical memoir, chronicles his farm-based family background, early education, military service during World War I, and the beginnings of what would become a distinguished academic career. Part II features a selection of correspondence during his military service, revealing both the pain and perceptions derived from that experience, and other war-related writings. It also includes "The Returned Soldier, " a detailed piece of research and a compassionate plea to recognize how the aftermath of the Great War would affect those who served as well as the individuals and institutions on the home front. Years before the term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was coined, Innis was acutely aware of the condition and suggested ways in which it might be treated. Other war-related items included are Innis's first published article (dealing with the economics of the solider) and a draft speech composed in the fall of 1918. All original materials have been extensively annotated to provide context for the contemporary reader and researcher.
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• Foreword by John Durham Peters Acknowledgments Introduction by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer 1-The Coming of Paper 2-Printing in the 15th Century 3-Printing in the 16th Century Bibliography Index About the Editors.
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For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis's unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications-but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript. Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines the development of paper and printing from antiquity in Asia through to 16th century Europe. He demonstrates how the paper/printing nexus intersected with a broad range of other phenomena, including administrative structures, geopolitics, militarism, public opinion, aesthetics, cultural diffusion, religion, education, reception, production processes, technology, labor relations, and commerce, as well as the lives of visionary figures. Buxton, Cheney, and Heyer knit the chapters into a cohesive narrative and help readers navigate Innis's observations by summarizing the heavily detailed factual material that peppered the unpublished manuscript. They provide further context for Innis's arguments by adding annotations, references, and pertinent citations to his other writings. The end result is both a testament to Innis's status as a canonical figure in the study of communication and a surprisingly relevant contribution to how we might think about the current sea change in all aspects of social, cultural, political, and economic life stemming from the global shift to digital communication.
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It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. "Empire and Communications" is one of Innis' most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge.
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• The strategy of culture
• The military implications of the American constitution
• Roman law and the British Empire
• The press, a neglected factor in the economic history of the twentieth century
• Great Britain, the United States, and Canada.

"This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. Innis explores military implications of the U.S. Constitution, freedom of the press, communication monopolies, culture, and press support of presidential candidates, among other interesting and diverse topics."--Jacket.

At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence. Innis has long been regarded as one of Canada's foremost historians, and in The Fur Trade in Canada he presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern colonial and European needs; and transportation history in the case of the displacement of the canoe by the York boat. Political history appears in Innis's examination of the nature of French-British rivalry and the American Revolution; and business history is represented in his detailed account of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies and the industry that played so vital a role in the expansion of Canada. In his introduction to this new edition, Arthur J. Ray argues that The Fur Trade in Canada is the most definitive economic history and geography of the country ever produced. Innis's revolutionary conclusion - that Canada was created because of its geography, not in spite of it - is a captivating idea but also an enigmatic proposition in light of the powerful decentralizing forces that threaten the nation today. Ray presents the history of the book and concludes that "Innis's great book remains essential reading for the study of Canada.".
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION: Celebrating Innis: The Man, the Legacy, and Our Future
• PART ONE: STAPLE TRADES, THE RISE OF INDUSTRIALISM, AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF EMPIRE
• 1 The Importance of Staple Products in Canadian Development
• 2 The Political Implications of Unused Capacity in Frontier Economies
• 3 Decentralization and Democracy in the Atlantic Basin
• 4 The Economic Development of the Maritime Provinces, 1867â€?1921
• 5 The Penetrative Powers of the Price System on New World States

• 6 Liquidity Preference and the Specialization of Production in North America and the PacificPART TWO: RESOURCES AND REGIONALISM: THE ORIGINS OF MODERN CANADA
• 7 Transportation as a Factor in Canadian Economic History
• 8 Unused Capacity as a Factor in Canadian Economic History
• 9 Commerce and Industry in Canadian Economic Development 1760â€?1935
• 10 The Place of Land in North American Federations
• 11 Organized Labour and Living Standards in Canadian Economic History
• 12 The Economics of Conservation

• PART THREE: METROPOLITANISM, NATIONALITY, AND THE CRISIS OF INDUSTRIALISM13 Economic Nationalism
• 14 The Canadian Economy and the Depression
• 15 Some Problems of Adjustment in Canada
• 16 For the People: The Intellectual State of Canada
• 17 The Rowell-Sirois Report
• 18 Recent Trends in Canadian-American Relations
• 19 Great Britain, the United States, and Canada
• 20 Business and Government
• PART FOUR: POLITICAL CULTURE, THE BIAS OF COMMUNICATION, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
• 21 On the Economic Significance of Cultural Factors

• 22 Industrialism and Cultural Values23 The Bias of Communication
• 24 The Mechanization of Knowledge
• 25 A Plea for Time
• 26 The Concept of Monopoly and Civilization
• 27 The Problem of Space
• PART FIVE: THE INTELLECTUAL AS CITIZEN
• 28 The Role of the Social Scientist
• 29 The Passing of Political Economy
• 30 The Common Man and Internationalism: Myths in the Social Sciences
• 31 The Intellectual in History
• 32 The Church in Canada
• 33 Adult Education and Universities
• 34 Democracy and the Free City
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This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - which have not been readily accessible before. At the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural, social and political institutions of new countries. By the end of his intellectual journey he had become one of the most influential critics of modernity. The essays in this collection address a variety of themes, including the rise of industrialism and the expansion of international markets, staples trades, critical factors in Canadian development, metropolitanism and nationality, the problems of adjustment, the political economy of communications, the economics of cultural change, and Innis's conception of the role of the intellectual as citizen. Innis succeeded as few others have in providing an astute and comprehensive account of the economic and social forces shaping modernity. His abiding interest in the contradictory and unintended consequences of markets in general, gave rise to the rich legacy of his prodigious output.
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• The strategy of culture.--Military implications of the American Constitution.--Roman law and the British Empire.--The press, a neglected factor in the economic history of the twentieth century.--Great Britain, the United States, and Canada.