History

Education

B.A (Ahmadu Bello University), M.A (Ahmadu Bello University), Ph.D. (York)

Education

Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley; MA: Simon Fraser University; BA: Simon Fraser University

Current Research

animal history
environmental history
live performance and communication
entertainment and information industries
America in the world
North American West

Education 

B.A (Queen’s), M.A (Toronto), D.Phil. (Oxford)

Education

B.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Current Research

My research focuses on economic and social aspects of technology, inequality and the standard of living, much of it in the context of rural communities and the industrial and demographic transformation of late nineteenth-century Canada. 

Volume I (1978)

The National Policy and Prairie Economic Discrimination, 1870-1930
by Kenneth H. Norrie, pp. 13-32. 
Professor Norrie argues that the alleged economic discrimination against prairie farmers in the years 1870-1930, was just that - allegation, not fact.

Volume II (1980)

The Adoption of the Gasoline Tractor in Western Canada
by Robert E. Ankli, H. Dan Helsberg and John Herd Thompson, pp. 9-40. 
Messrs. Ankli, Helsberg and Thompson provide a rigorous accounting of the micro-economics behind the decision of thousands of individual farmers to substitute petroleum-driven tractors for horse power, which is nothing less than the agricultural revolution of the twentieth century.

Volume III (1982)

A Reconsideration of the State of Agriculture in Lower Canada in the First half of the Nineteenth Century
by R.M. McInnis, pp.9-49. 

Volume IV (1984)

An Orderly Reconstruction: Prairie Agriculture in World War Two
by Ian MacPherson and John Herd Thompson, pp. 11-32. 

Farm Making Costs in Early Ontario
by Robert E. Ankli and Kenneth J. Duncan, pp. 33-49. 

Tenant vs. Owner Occupied Farms in York County, Ontario, 1871
by William L. Marr, pp. 50-71. 

Corporate Farming on Vancouver Island: The Puget Sound's Agricultural Company, 1846-1857
by Barry M. Gough, pp. 72-82. 

Volume V (1986)

The Malin Thesis of Grassland Acculturation and the New Rural History
by Robert P. Sweirenga, pp. 11-22.
This article, by one of the leading American proponents of the 'new rural history', assays the work of James C. Malin whose relationship to modern rural studies is analogous to that of E.P. Thompson in urban studies.

Volume VI (1988)