Drawing on a generation of new scholarship the authors of this book trace the history of business institutions in Canada, and the complex web of trade, investment, technology, and ideas that connect Canadian business development to the evolution of capitalism in Europe and North America over
the past 500 years. Within this framework the authors explore the role of entrepreneurs, financial promoters, politicians, government bureaucrats, small businesses, and multinational corporations in shaping a distinctive Canadian business system.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 380.1/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780195435597 0195409787
- LCCN
- HF3224
- LCCN Item number
- T23 1994eb
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 491 p. :)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00223278 (OCoLC)500909240 (CaOOCEL)432103
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- PART 1 The Merging of Early Commercial Traditions to 1663 20
- Chapter 1 Business Practice in North America and Europe at the Time of Contact 21
- Chapter 2 Companies and Commerce in North America: The Case of Fur, 1603–1663 40
- PART 2 The Colonial Business of New France, 1663–1763 50
- Chapter 3 Crown, Colony, and Business Endeavour: An Introduction and a Framework 51
- Chapter 4 In Pursuit of Certainty: Canada's Fur Frontier, 1653–1763 58
- Chapter 5 Old Regime Business in the New World: Merchants, Craft Producers, and Peasant Farmers 79
- PART 3 Colonial Capitalism in Transition: 1791–1871 102
- Chapter 6 Setting the Contours for Colonial Capitalism: An Introduction 103
- Chapter 7 The Business of Fur: 1763–1871 106
- Chapter 8 Arrested Transition: Atlantic Canada 128
- Chapter 9 From Hinterland to Heartland: Upper Canada/Ontario 159
- Chapter 10 Farm, Factory and Finance: Lower Canada/Quebec 212
- Chapter 11 Ties that Bind: Railways, Tariffs, and Business, 1867–1885 249
- PART 4 The Age of Business Consolidation, 1885–1929 266
- Chapter 12 Commanding Heights 267
- Chapter 13 Networks of Progress 283
- Chapter 14 Gifts of Nature 307
- Chapter 15 Nation Builders 328
- Chapter 16 Integration and Disintegration 354
- PART 5 The Age of the Activist State, 1930–1984 380
- Chapter 17 The Incomplete Leviathan 381
- Chapter 18 The Arsenal Economy 404
- Chapter 19 'Province Builders' 430
- Chapter 20 Millionaires, Mandarins, and Multinationals 457
- EPILOGUE: Leaping in the Dark 486
- Index 495
- A 495
- B 495
- C 497
- D 499
- E 499
- F 500
- G 500
- H 501
- I 502
- J 502
- K 502
- L 502
- M 503
- N 504
- O 505
- P 505
- Q 506
- R 506
- S 507
- T 508
- U 509
- V 509
- W 509
- X 510
- Y 510
- Z 510
