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George Ramsay Cook, OC, FRSC ( born November 28, 1931 in Alameda, Saskatchewan ), is a Canadian historian and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

He was professor of history at York University for 25 years until 1996.

Through his championing of so-called " limited identities ", Cook contributed to the rise of the New Social History, which uses " class, gender and ethnicity " as its three main categories of analysis.

Cook's conception of " limited identities " was famously formulated in an article in the International Journal in 1967, Canada's centenary year, reviewing the state of contemporary scholarship on Canadian nationalism: