Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)

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Charles R. Acland and William J. Buxton, eds, Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, 435 pp.

Harold Innis in the New Century is a collection of twenty essays that were originally presented at a conference at Concordia University celebrating the 1994 centenary of Harold Innis's birth. The contributors were selected to represent a diversity of engagements and engagement sites. Yet, the book reads as an integrated whole--in part because the contributors share a common focus on Innis as a public intellectual and in part because they share a model of historiography that restores Innis's writings to their context while allowing contributors to use their reflections on Innis to explore the place of …