![]() ![]() 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 argues that The Fur Trade in Canada is the most definitive economic history and geography of the country ever produced. ![]() In his introduction to this new edition, Arthur J. 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. 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. ![]() Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence. At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. ![]()
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