ABSTRACT
This book emerged from the ‘Global Political Ecology’ conference organized by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. It was one of a series of events held across Canada during 1994 to honour the centenary of the birth of Harold Innis, arguably Canada’s most important political economist. The great scholar, who had spent most of his career at the University of Toronto, was born in 1894 in Otterville, Ontario. When he died in 1953, Innis left Canadian scholarship a rich legacy of historical studies, a distinctive tradition of inquiry, and a number of interesting unresolved problematics that would be further explored by later generations of scholars inspired by his approach.
