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Who was influenced by Harold Innis's views of America?

  • Donald Creighton

  • John Maynard Keynes

  • Milton Friedman

  • Paul Samuelson

Answer

Harold Innis's ideas about Canada influenced Canadian historian Donald Creighton. Innis believed that Canada's economy was based on the transportation of resources and that the country's history could be understood in terms of the development of these transportation networks. Creighton used Innis's ideas to write about the history of Canada from the perspective of the fur trade and the railways.
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