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Papers by Ken Cruikshank
Technology and Culture, 1999
Canadian national historians, philosophers, poets, and folksingers have celebrated the constructi... more Canadian national historians, philosophers, poets, and folksingers have celebrated the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway as one of the great moments in Canadian history. The completion of the railway, they contend, drove the last spike into the hearts of covetous and expansionist Americans who sought to claim North America as their own, and ensured the creation of a kinder, gentler nation north of the forty-ninth parallel. In The Philosophy of Railways, historian AA den Otter punctures this national myth.
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, May 1, 2019
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, Jan 15, 2016
Labour/Le Travail, May 15, 2019
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The Canadian historical review, 2004
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Labour/Le Travail, 1996
El objetivo principal de Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the ... more El objetivo principal de Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the Railway Age es descubrir y explicar los orígenes históricos de las estrategias industriales de distintos países a partir del análisis comparativo de la política ferrocarrilera durante el siglo XIX. El punto de partida de Dobbin es la crítica a los fundamentos teóricos y epistemológicos de los distintos enfoques pluralistas, institucionalistas y de la economía neoclásica. El análisis está informado por dos corrientes metodológicas principales: el "construccionismo social" y la antropología económica. El autor sostiene que, más allá de sus diferencias, estas dos perspectivas concurren al asumir que las políticas públicas son producto ya sea de leyes económicas universales "racionales" o de la búsqueda lógica de ventajas económicas por parte de individuos o grupos de intereses en la arena política. Los economistas que sugieren que en última instancia las políticas gubernamentales estén condicionadas por las necesidades funcionales de la industria no logran explicar por qué no se ha dado una convergencia clara hacia el modelo más eficiente. Los politólogos que argumentan que las políticas reflejan las preferencias de los grupos de interés más poderosos tampoco aportan una explicación cabal al hecho observable de la persistencia de políticas industriales en una misma nación y su influencia en la toma de decisiones en el presente bajo regímenes con distintas orientaciones ideológicas. En su estudio Frank Dobbin rompe con estos supuestos para intentar descubrir los procesos históricos de "construcción sociocultural" de la acción estatal. En especial, busca explicar cómo trayectorias históricas divergentes en distintas naciones llevaron a la conformación de nociones y metapreferencias diferentes acerca del orden y la racionalidad —lo que denomina el autor en inglés "shared cognitive understandings"— tanto en el ámbito político como en el económi-
The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 2000
Enterprise and Society, 2011
The Canadian Historical Review, 2000
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2006
On Friday 16 October 1954, Hurricane Hazel generated flash floods in the watersheds surrounding T... more On Friday 16 October 1954, Hurricane Hazel generated flash floods in the watersheds surrounding Toronto. Flooding destroyed bridges, engulfed trailer parks and residential areas, and swept automobiles, trailers, cottages and homes into the strong current. In this essay, the authors explore the ways that the federal and provincial governments interacted with voluntary organizations and local governments to deal with the immediate crisis produced by Hazel’s floods, and how they negotiated the lengthy process of restoration. The responses of those governments tell us much about the social and environmental assumptions as well as the political capacity of Canadian society in the mid-1950s. The federal and provincial governments immediately promised action, but then reluctantly became involved in reconstruction, leaving as much responsibility as possible to voluntary organizations and local governments. A tropical storm travelling through the province of Ontario was a relatively rare event, yet ultimately government officials did not respond to the Hazel disaster as a random, chance event. Instead, the conservation movement and local authorities pressured governments to see the hurricane flooding not as a natural disaster, but as a tragedy, which human decisions had helped precipitate, and which, in the future, human decisions might alleviate.
Sport et nature dans l’histoire, 2004
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University of Calgary Press eBooks, Oct 5, 2018
The Nature | History | Society series is devoted to the publication of highquality scholarship in... more The Nature | History | Society series is devoted to the publication of highquality scholarship in environmental history and allied fields. Its broad compass is signalled by its title: nature because it takes the natural world seriously; history because it aims to foster work that has temporal depth; and society because its essential concern is with the interface between nature and society, broadly conceived. The series is avowedly interdisciplinary and is open to the work of anthropologists, ecologists, historians, geographers, literary scholars, political scientists, sociologists, and others whose interests resonate with its mandate. It offers a timely outlet for lively, innovative, and well-written work on the interaction of people and nature through time in North America.
Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate
Sport History Review
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Justice et injustices environnementales, 2000
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 2016
Enterprise and Society, 2012
Sport History Review, 1998
In the early 1980s the International Joint Commission on Inland Waters declared Hamilton Harbour ... more In the early 1980s the International Joint Commission on Inland Waters declared Hamilton Harbour on Lake Ontario to be one of forty-three environmental “areas of concern” in the Great Lakes system. Since December 1991, the Bay Area Restoration Council and the Bay Area Implementation Team have been coordinating a Remedial Action Plan for the harbour, aimed at cleaning up the water, re-establishing fish and wildlife habitats, and improving various recreational facilities. Seeking to reverse the process that had transformed a once ...
Technology and Culture, 1999
Canadian national historians, philosophers, poets, and folksingers have celebrated the constructi... more Canadian national historians, philosophers, poets, and folksingers have celebrated the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway as one of the great moments in Canadian history. The completion of the railway, they contend, drove the last spike into the hearts of covetous and expansionist Americans who sought to claim North America as their own, and ensured the creation of a kinder, gentler nation north of the forty-ninth parallel. In The Philosophy of Railways, historian AA den Otter punctures this national myth.
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, May 1, 2019
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, Jan 15, 2016
Labour/Le Travail, May 15, 2019
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
The Canadian historical review, 2004
des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998.
Labour/Le Travail, 1996
El objetivo principal de Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the ... more El objetivo principal de Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the Railway Age es descubrir y explicar los orígenes históricos de las estrategias industriales de distintos países a partir del análisis comparativo de la política ferrocarrilera durante el siglo XIX. El punto de partida de Dobbin es la crítica a los fundamentos teóricos y epistemológicos de los distintos enfoques pluralistas, institucionalistas y de la economía neoclásica. El análisis está informado por dos corrientes metodológicas principales: el "construccionismo social" y la antropología económica. El autor sostiene que, más allá de sus diferencias, estas dos perspectivas concurren al asumir que las políticas públicas son producto ya sea de leyes económicas universales "racionales" o de la búsqueda lógica de ventajas económicas por parte de individuos o grupos de intereses en la arena política. Los economistas que sugieren que en última instancia las políticas gubernamentales estén condicionadas por las necesidades funcionales de la industria no logran explicar por qué no se ha dado una convergencia clara hacia el modelo más eficiente. Los politólogos que argumentan que las políticas reflejan las preferencias de los grupos de interés más poderosos tampoco aportan una explicación cabal al hecho observable de la persistencia de políticas industriales en una misma nación y su influencia en la toma de decisiones en el presente bajo regímenes con distintas orientaciones ideológicas. En su estudio Frank Dobbin rompe con estos supuestos para intentar descubrir los procesos históricos de "construcción sociocultural" de la acción estatal. En especial, busca explicar cómo trayectorias históricas divergentes en distintas naciones llevaron a la conformación de nociones y metapreferencias diferentes acerca del orden y la racionalidad —lo que denomina el autor en inglés "shared cognitive understandings"— tanto en el ámbito político como en el económi-
The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 2000
Enterprise and Society, 2011
The Canadian Historical Review, 2000
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2006
On Friday 16 October 1954, Hurricane Hazel generated flash floods in the watersheds surrounding T... more On Friday 16 October 1954, Hurricane Hazel generated flash floods in the watersheds surrounding Toronto. Flooding destroyed bridges, engulfed trailer parks and residential areas, and swept automobiles, trailers, cottages and homes into the strong current. In this essay, the authors explore the ways that the federal and provincial governments interacted with voluntary organizations and local governments to deal with the immediate crisis produced by Hazel’s floods, and how they negotiated the lengthy process of restoration. The responses of those governments tell us much about the social and environmental assumptions as well as the political capacity of Canadian society in the mid-1950s. The federal and provincial governments immediately promised action, but then reluctantly became involved in reconstruction, leaving as much responsibility as possible to voluntary organizations and local governments. A tropical storm travelling through the province of Ontario was a relatively rare event, yet ultimately government officials did not respond to the Hazel disaster as a random, chance event. Instead, the conservation movement and local authorities pressured governments to see the hurricane flooding not as a natural disaster, but as a tragedy, which human decisions had helped precipitate, and which, in the future, human decisions might alleviate.
Sport et nature dans l’histoire, 2004
An academic directory and search engine.
University of Calgary Press eBooks, Oct 5, 2018
The Nature | History | Society series is devoted to the publication of highquality scholarship in... more The Nature | History | Society series is devoted to the publication of highquality scholarship in environmental history and allied fields. Its broad compass is signalled by its title: nature because it takes the natural world seriously; history because it aims to foster work that has temporal depth; and society because its essential concern is with the interface between nature and society, broadly conceived. The series is avowedly interdisciplinary and is open to the work of anthropologists, ecologists, historians, geographers, literary scholars, political scientists, sociologists, and others whose interests resonate with its mandate. It offers a timely outlet for lively, innovative, and well-written work on the interaction of people and nature through time in North America.
Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate
Sport History Review
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
Justice et injustices environnementales, 2000
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 2016
Enterprise and Society, 2012
Sport History Review, 1998
In the early 1980s the International Joint Commission on Inland Waters declared Hamilton Harbour ... more In the early 1980s the International Joint Commission on Inland Waters declared Hamilton Harbour on Lake Ontario to be one of forty-three environmental “areas of concern” in the Great Lakes system. Since December 1991, the Bay Area Restoration Council and the Bay Area Implementation Team have been coordinating a Remedial Action Plan for the harbour, aimed at cleaning up the water, re-establishing fish and wildlife habitats, and improving various recreational facilities. Seeking to reverse the process that had transformed a once ...