![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773-75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises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. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. "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. Here is the publisher's info.īiography, Cultural Memory, and the Continental Fur Tradeīiography/Autobiography/Life Writing, Communication Studies, History: CanadaĪ compelling study of Harold Innis's engagement with a remarkable - but largely overlooked - historical figure. What is that, the fourth or fifth book to come out in the last five years, the Wagner book in 1955 and before that nothing since 1930? Could this be because of me? Hmmm. Yet another book has been published on Peter Pond. ![]()
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