Harold Innis
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Canadian professor of political economy
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Harold Innis's Degrees
- PhD Political Economy University of Chicago
Why Is Harold Innis Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Adams Innis was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history, and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, lumber, wheat, mined metals, and coal. The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada from the 1930s to 1960s, and continues to be a fundamental part of the Canadian political economic tradition.
Harold Innis's Published Works
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Published Works
- Empire and Communications (1952) (916)
- The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (1930) (426)
- The fur trade in Canada (286)
- Problems of staple production in Canada (1933) (116)
- The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (1940) (113)
- Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (1941) (85)
- Changing Concepts of Time (1952) (85)
- The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy. (1941) (76)
- A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (73)
- A history of transportation in Canada (1938) (59)
- Political Economy in the Modern State. (1947) (50)
- The Cod Fisheries (1940) (49)
- Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process . By Joseph A. Schumpeter. Two vols. New York: McGraw Hill. 1939. Pp. xvi, 1095. ($11.50) (1940) (47)
- Decentralization and Democracy (1943) (38)
- Engineering and society (1946) (32)
- The Teaching of Economic History in Canada (29)
- The Cod Fisheries; the History of an International Economy. (1943) (28)
- Settlement and the forest frontier in eastern Canada (1936) (24)
- The Penetrative Powers of the Price System (1938) (23)
- The Newspaper in Economic Development (1942) (22)
- Technology and Public Opinion in the United States (1951) (20)
- Select Documents In Canadian Economic History (20)
- Unused Capacity as a Factor in Canadian Economic History (1936) (19)
- A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (1923) (18)
- Minutes of Council, Northern Department of Rupert Land, 1821-31 (1942) (16)
- Minerva's owl (1948) (16)
- The Canadian economy and its problems (1935) (15)
- Farm Credit in Canada. (1939) (14)
- The Dairy Industry In Canada (1938) (14)
- The Role of Intelligence: Some Further Notes (1935) (14)
- Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885. (1935) (13)
- Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1497-1783 (1930) (12)
- The Rowell-Sirois Report * (1940) (12)
- Henry Wise Wood of Alberta (1951) (12)
- Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor (1935) (11)
- Empire and Communications@@@The Bias of Communication (1953) (10)
- The Diary of Alexander James McPhail (1941) (10)
- Significant Factors in Canadian Economic Development (1937) (10)
- Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming’s Expedition through Canada in 1872 (1926) (10)
- Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada@@@Settlement and the Mining Frontier (1937) (9)
- Territorial Government in Canada. The Autonomy Question in the Old North-West Territories (1947) (9)
- Comments on Russia (1946) (8)
- The Hudson Bay Railway (8)
- Historic Forts and Trading Posts of the French Régime and of the English Fur Trading Companies (1931) (8)
- Labor in Canadian-American relations (1939) (7)
- Presidential Address: On the Economic Significance of Culture (1944) (7)
- Geography and Nationalism: A Discussion (1945) (7)
- The Problem of Public and Historical Records in Canada (1944) (6)
- Canadian Frontiers of Settlement. Volume IX.@@@Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada.@@@Settlement and the Mining Frontier. (1936) (6)
- The foreign trade of Canada (1930) (5)
- The Economics of Conservation (1938) (5)
- Interrelations Between the Fur Trade of Canada and the United States (1933) (4)
- A Free and Responsible Press: A General Report on Mass Communications—Newspapers, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines and Books . By the Commission on Freedom of the Press. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1947. Pp. xii, 139. $2.00. (1949) (4)
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States by Charles O. Paullin (review) (1934) (4)
- Sub Specie Temporis (1951) (3)
- American influence in Canadian mining (1941) (3)
- Report of the Royal commission, provincial economic inquiry (1934) (3)
- “Gentlemen, The Press!” Chronicles of a Crusade—Official History of the National Union of Journalists. By J. F. Mansfield. London: W. H. Allen, 1943. Pp. 579. 15s. 6d (1946) (3)
- Letters of William Davies, Toronto, 1854-1861 (1946) (3)
- The Social Sciences in the Post-War World: A Symposium (1941) (2)
- The Publications of the Champlain Society: Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1671-1674 (1944) (2)
- The Journal of Duncan M’Gillivray of the North West Company at Fort George on the Saskatchewan, 1794 by Arthur S. Morton (review) (1929) (2)
- Communications and Archaeology (1951) (2)
- An Introduction to the Economic History of the Maritimes (including Newfoundland and New England) (1931) (2)
- A Note on Recent Publications on the Fur Trade (1936) (2)
- The Place of Land in North American Federations (1940) (1)
- Canadian Frontiers of Settlement@@@Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada@@@Settlement and the Mining Frontier (1937) (1)
- More Books on the Canadian Far North (1936) (1)
- Canadian Government Publications: A Manual for Librarians (1935) (1)
- The Published Works of H. A. Innis (1953) (1)
- Report of the Manitoba Royal Commission on Adult Education (1948) (1)
- Recent Books on Arctic Exploration and the Canadian Northland (1940) (1)
- The North West Company (1927) (1)
- Book Review:The Newsprint Paper Industry: An Economic Analysis John A. Guthrie (1942) (1)
- The English Press in the Nineteenth Century: An Economic Approach (1946) (1)
- Royal Commission Studies: A Selection of Essays Prepared for the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences. (1952) (1)
- Newfoundland, Economic and Political III. Basic Problems of Government in Newfoundland (1937) (1)
- Canadian and Imperial Economic History: A Review (1932) (1)
- Newfoundland, Economic and Political I. The Amulree Report (1933): A Review (1937) (1)
- The French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest by Louise Phelps Kellogg (review) (1926) (1)
- Recent Books on the Canadian Northland and the Arctic (1938) (1)
- The Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire. Vol. II. Comparative View of Dominion Problems, Canada. (1931) (1)
- Economic Conditions in Canada in 1931-2 (1932) (1)
- Arctic Survey: Foreword (1945) (1)
- Notes on Problems of Adjustment in Canada (1935) (1)
- The Romance of Mining (1945) (1)
- Le Canada d’Aujourd’hui: Son industrieHistory of the World’s Commerce with special reference to CanadaThe Canada Year Book 1929: The official statistical annual of the resources, history, institutions and social and economic conditions of the Dominion (1929) (1)
- Recent Books on the North American Arctic (1942) (1)
- Two Memoirs—Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy; and My Early Beliefs . By John Maynard Keynes. London: Rupert Hart-Davis [Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Co.]. 1949. Pp. 106. ($2.00) (1950) (1)
- The State and Economic Life. (1934) (0)
- When Fur was King (1929) (0)
- Book Review:John Jacob Astor, Business Man Kenneth Wiggins Porter (0)
- Notes and Comments (1931) (0)
- The Fur Trade and Early Western Exploration (1929) (0)
- Gold Fields of Nova Scotia (1930) (0)
- Chapters Four - Five (1948) (0)
- William T. Jackman, 1871–1951 (1952) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1922) (0)
- Work and History: An Essay on the Structure of Civilization . By Paul Schrecker. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1948. Pp. xviii, 322. (1949) (0)
- John Jacob Astor, Business ManThe Reflections of Inkyo on the Great Company (1932) (0)
- The world's economic future (1939) (0)
- The American Maritime industries and Public Policy, 1789-1914. An Economic History@@@Sea Power and British North America, 1783-1820. A Study in British Colonial Policy@@@The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Newfoundland, 1783-1832. A Study of Retarded Colonization (1942) (0)
- Chapters One - Three (1948) (0)
- Economic History of the United States . By Chester W. Wright. New York, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1941. Pp. xxviii, 1120. ($4.00) (1942) (0)
- Japanese in Canada@@@The Japanese Canadians (1940) (0)
- The Canadian Economy and Its Problems: Papers and Proceedings of Study Groups of Members of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1933-1934 (1935) (0)
- Science for Democracy (1947) (0)
- The Story of St. Paul’s Parish, Toronto, 1822-1922Social and Economic Conditions in the Dominion of Canada (1923) (0)
- NEWTON-WHITE, E. Canadian Restoration. Pp. x, 227. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1944. $3.00 (1945) (0)
- Canadian Government Publications: A Manual for Librarians . By Higgins Marion Villiers. With an introduction by Lomer Gerhard R.. Chicago: American Library Association. 1935. Pp. ix, 582. (Planographed). ($2.25) (1935) (0)
- Social Studies (1936) (0)
- The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years, 1865–1880, Vol. II. By Philip Kinsley. Chicago: The Chicago Tribune, 1945. Pp. xv, 349. $3.00 (1947) (0)
- Some Aspects of Imperial CommunicationsCanada’s Great Highway from the first stake to the last spikeThe Romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1925) (0)
- Lord Strathcona (1926) (0)
- The Journal of Duncan M’Gillivray of the North West Company at Fort George on the Saskatchewan, 1794 (1929) (0)
- Rupert's Land in 1825 (1926) (0)
- Industrial and Agricultural Studies (1946) (0)
- The Northwest Fur Trade 1763-1800 (1928) (0)
- The Explorers of North America, 1492-1806 (1934) (0)
- The returned soldier (0)
- Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming’s Expedition through Canada in 1872 by George M. Grant of Halifax (review) (1926) (0)
- Agriculture and Canadian-American trade (1936) (0)
- Holland’s Description of Cape Breton Island an Other Documents (1935) (0)
- British Columbia and the United States: The North Pacific Slope from Fur Trade to Aviation by F. W. Howay, W. N. Sage, H. F. Angus (review) (1943) (0)
- Empire and Communications@@@The Press, a Neglected Factor in the Economic History of the Twentieth Century (1950) (0)
- The Nearing North (1930) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1932) (0)
- A Statutory History of the Steam and Electric Railways of Canada, 1836-1937: With Other Data Relevant to Operation of Department of Transport (1939) (0)
- North America: An historical, economic, and regional GeographyNorth America, its people and the resources, development, and prospects of the continent as an agricultural, industrial and commercial area (1925) (0)
- The Jubilee of the C.P.R. (1931) (0)
- The Influence of the Cod Fishery upon the History of the North American Seaboard (1940) (0)
- Labor in Canadian-American Relations: Labor Costs and Labor Standards (1939) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1931) (0)
- The New World Problems in Political GeographyGeography of North AmericaGéographie humaine de Montréal (1929) (0)
- Book Review:An Economic History of Modern Britain: Machines and National Rivalries (1887-1914), with an Epilogue (1914-1929). J. H. Clapham (1939) (0)
- Book Review:The Twentieth Century: A Mid-Way Account of the Western World. Hans Kohn (1951) (0)
- A Study of War . By Quincy Wright. (2 vols.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press [Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co.]. 1942. Pp. xxiv, 678; xviii, 679-1552. ($16.50 the set) (1943) (0)
- Labor in Canadian-American relations : the history of labor interaction . Labor costs and labor standards (1937) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1928) (0)
- A Gateway of Empire (1940) (0)
- From Economic Theory to Policy . By E. Ronald Walker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1943. Pp. viii, 273. ($3.00) (1944) (0)
- Correspondence (1928) (0)
- The Newsprint Paper Industry: An Economic Analysis (1941) (0)
- WheatThe Bread of Britain (1930) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1926) (0)
- Frontiers and, the Fur TradeJohn Jacob Astor (1929) (0)
- Supplementary Note on Canadian Economic Conditions in 1931-2 (1932) (0)
- Book Review: Soviet Philosophy: A Study of Theory and Practice (1948) (0)
- The Growth of the American Economy: An Introduction to the Economic History of the United States.Harold F. Williamson (1945) (0)
- The Chicago Tribune, Its First Hundred Years. Vol. i, 1847–1865. By Philip Kinsley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Pp. xv, 381, viii. $5.00 (1944) (0)
- The Mingling of the Canadian and American Peoples. By the late M. L. Hansen. [Vol. I, Historical. Completed and prepared for publication by John Bartlett Brebner.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. xviii, 274. $3.00 (1941) (0)
- BROWN, BENJAMIN H. The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881-1895. Pp. x, 170. New York: Columbia Uni versity Press, 1943. $2.50 (1944) (0)
- Essays in Transportation in Honour of W. T. Jackman (1942) (0)
- The Fishing Industry of Northeastern North America@@@The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (1940) (0)
- Historic Forts and Trading Posts of the French Régime and of the English Fur Trading Companies by Ernest Voorhis (review) (1931) (0)
- The Message of the Carillon; And Other SpeechesFur-farming for Profit (1928) (0)
- Book Review:The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada: A Survey Showing American Parallels Paul F. Sharp (1949) (0)
- The British Fishery at Newfoundland, 1634-1763The North American Fisheries and British Policy to 1713 (1935) (0)
- Book Review:Henry de Tonty: Fur Trader of the Mississippi Edmund Robert Murphy (1942) (0)
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