National Policy and Western Development in North America

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ID10105022
AuthorsVernon C Fowke
Year1956
Volume16
Issue4
Pages461-479
Publication date1956-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050700059064
OpenAlexW2142885407
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

The general theme of these discussions calls for a reinterpretation of the West as an underdeveloped region. This lends credence to a hypothesis occasionally encountered that history is comprised of the examination of a succession of conceptual anachronisms devised in each case by the historian's generation for the solution of contemporary problems and applied as an afterthought to the reconstruction of the past. The adoption of the concept of underdevelopment in die present circumstance is in line with this hypothesis and is, in this regard, in good company with well-worn frames of reference utilized by earlier generations of North American economic historians. Turner advanced the frontier thesis as a tool of analysis of the past at a time when major concern was arising over the frontier's disappearance. Innis fashioned the staple-trade approach to Canadian economic development in the interwar years when for a time it appeared that Canadian prosperity and material advance had vanished coincidentally with the mortal illness of the last great Canadian staple, wheat

Aesthetics · Conceptual history · Credence · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Political science · Prosperity · Reinterpretation · Theme (computing · Underdevelopment · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Philosophy

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