Harold Innis and the North: Appraisals and Contestations

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 Can...