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Harold Adams Innis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Harold Adams Innis The political economist Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952) developed the "staple theory" of Canadian development. Harold Adams Innis was born in 1894 in Oxford County in southwestern Ontario...
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Roy Innis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roy Innis (Roy Emile Alfredo Innis), 1934-, American civil-rights leader, b. St. Croix, Virgin...policies and criticizing the politics of Jesse Jackson . In 1996-98, Innis led teams that monitored elections in Nigeria.
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Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...the 19th century. As the Canadian economic historian Harold Innis noted in his study of the fur trade, the wholesale exploitation...path which focused on the extraction of the raw materials that Innis referred to as staples. With the fur trade came an increased...
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James Rutherford Fair, Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the University of Texas in 1954. He was married on January 14, 1950, to Merle Innis and fathered three children: James Rutherford III, Elizabeth, and Richard Innis. Fair worked for Monsanto Company in Marshall, Texas as a chemist and research...
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Congress of Racial Equality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush . CORE leader Roy Innis supported the nominations of Robert Bork (1987) and Clarence Thomas (1991) to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1996-98, Innis led teams that monitored elections in Nigeria. By 1999, CORE...
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Media
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...s predominant media have reflected the shape and character of the civilizations that created and made of use them. Harold Innis (1894 – 1952), a Canadian economic historian, regards media as “ staples ” allowing for the...
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Fisheries
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...also Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement, Era of European ; Indian History and Culture ; Work . Bibliography Harold A. Innis , The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy , rev. ed., 1954. Joseph E. Taylor III , Making Salmon...
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University of Toronto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...information science, social work, forestry, law, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. University colleges include Erindale, Innis, New, Scarborough, University, and Woodsworth. The Univ. of St. Michael's College with its affiliate, the Pontifical...
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Black West Indians in the United States
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...At the same time, however, West Indians were active in politics and many African-American leaders such as Malcolm X, Roy Innis, James Farmer, Shirley Chisholm, and Stokely Carmichael were of West Indian ancestry. In recent years, though tensions...
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Miranda Warnings
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...interrogation exists whenever police reasonably expect that a suspect is likely to offer incriminating information ( Rhode Island v. Innis , 1980). Although most interrogations are carried out by law enforcement officers, some psychiatric examinations (e.g...
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