Neil S Forkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil S Forkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil S |
| FAMILY NAME | Forkey |
| SIGNATURE | FORKEY N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Powering Dissent
Taking the St. Lawrence River watershed as a study area, this paper examines grassroots protests that emerged during the 1970s in Québec, New York State, and Ontario. At issue in all three cases was a reaction to large-scale energy projects that many local people believed threatened human health and economic well-being. The essay draws upon what Barry Weisberg termed the “politics of ecology” (1970), in analyzing the strategies and outcomes evide…
Your Country, My Country
"Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada by Robert Bothwell." Canadian Historical Review, 98(2), pp. 440–441
Matthew Evenden. Allied Power
The phrase “Canada’s Second World War” conjures many images. There are the high politics of Canadian-American continental defense exemplified by the Ogdensburg Agreement (1940) and the Hyde Park Declaration (1941), as well as the 1943 and 1944 Quebec City conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill (with Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King playing host). Events between 1939 and 1945 that touched Canada are …
Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier
Damning the Dam
Between 1826 and 1841 the pioneers of Ops township struggled to define their environment and protect their public rights. A tragic feature of the swampy landscape from which the township originated was its suitability as a breeding ground for anopheline mosquitoes (malaria carriers). Despite the outward undesirability of the site, the Crown Lands Department began locating settlers in Ops and later sought to establish grist and lumber mills there …
Consuming Canada
Anglers, Fishers, and the St. Croix River
Anglers, Fishers, and the St. Croix River
Consuming Canada
Damning the Dam
Between 1826 and 1841 the pioneers of Ops township struggled to define their environment and protect their public rights. A tragic feature of the swampy landscape from which the township originated was its suitability as a breeding ground for anopheline mosquitoes (malaria carriers). Despite the outward undesirability of the site, the Crown Lands Department began locating settlers in Ops and later sought to establish grist and lumber mills there …
Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier
Matthew Evenden. Allied Power
The phrase “Canada’s Second World War” conjures many images. There are the high politics of Canadian-American continental defense exemplified by the Ogdensburg Agreement (1940) and the Hyde Park Declaration (1941), as well as the 1943 and 1944 Quebec City conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill (with Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King playing host). Events between 1939 and 1945 that touched Canada are …
Your Country, My Country
"Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada by Robert Bothwell." Canadian Historical Review, 98(2), pp. 440–441
Powering Dissent
Taking the St. Lawrence River watershed as a study area, this paper examines grassroots protests that emerged during the 1970s in Québec, New York State, and Ontario. At issue in all three cases was a reaction to large-scale energy projects that many local people believed threatened human health and economic well-being. The essay draws upon what Barry Weisberg termed the “politics of ecology” (1970), in analyzing the strategies and outcomes evide…
Canadian Identity and History (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works)