Don Nerbas

Dominion of Capital

The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dominion of Capital offers a new account of relations between government and business in Canada during a period of transition between the established expectations of the National Policy and the uncertain future of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645455
• ISBN-10: 1442645458
• Artikelnr.: 38134101

Autorenporträt

Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society / McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Canadian Capital in the Age of Empire
Part One: Big Business from Triumph to Crisis
Chapter One
Provincial Man of Mystery:
Howard P. Robinson and the Politics of Capital in New Brunswick
Chapter Two
Charles A. Dunning:
A Progressive in Business and Politics
Chapter Three
The Dilemma of Democracy:
Sir Edward Beatty, the Railway Question, and National Government
Part Two: Continentalism and the Managerial Ethic
Chapter Four
Stewardship and Dependency:
Sam McLaughlin, General Motors, and the Labour Question
Chapter Five
Engineering Canada:
C.D. Howe and Canadian Big Business
Conclusion
Après le déluge
Endnotes