Rolf Knight

Rolf Knight was born on March 4,1936 in Canada. He earned his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man. He received the George mostra altro Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He taught at both Simon Fraser University and the University of Toronto. Rolf Knight then wrote or co-authored Work Camps and Company Towns in Canada and the United States (1975), A Man of Our Times: A Life-History of a Japanese-Canadian Fisherman (1976), Stump Ranch Chronicles and Other Narratives (1977), Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia 1858-1930 (1978), Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront (1980), Traces of Magma: An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature (1983), Voyage Through the Mid-Century (1988) and Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing (1992). Rolf Knight passed away on June 22, 2019. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno