1. Historical geography and early Canada: a life and an interpretation.
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HARRIS, COLE
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ENVIRONMENTAL research , *HUMAN geography , *EARTH sciences , *INHERITANCE & succession , *HISTORICAL geography - Abstract
The first section of this two-part paper describes my historical geographical career, particularly the topics and issues I have pursued and the changing intellectual environment in which they have been situated. The second section offers a summary interpretation of the emerging human geography of early-modern Canada followed by some reflections on its contemporary implications. This interpretation stresses the extent to which boundaries and discontinuities marked early Canada, and contrasts a pinched Canadian experience with the land with a far more expansive American one. It shows how deeply difference was constructed and ingrained in the Canadian past, and suggests some challenges and opportunities that follow from this inheritance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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