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Print Price: $199.99

Format:
Paperback
312 pp.
13 boxes, 25 photos, 7" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195425499

Copyright Year:
2009

Imprint: OUP Canada


The Rise of Canadian Business

Graham D. Taylor

There's more to the history of Canadian business than the Hudson's Bay Company! Introducing The Rise of Canadian Business, a new core text which gives a complete picture of the past and present of Canadian business. The text focuses on the post-Confederation period of business history and contains significant material on Canadian companies in the new era of globalization. Setting out to provide a synthesis, the book draws on scholarship in the field and emphasizes several key themes: the changing patterns of business organization in Canada, the particular character of Canadian business development (as well as its similarities with developments in other industrial countries), and the international environment within which Canadian business has evolved. Thematically organized, end-of-chapter vignettes are included to elaborate on the major themes introduced in each chapter. This is the comprehensive but concise Canadian business history text that instructors have been waiting for!

Readership : A core text designed for university courses on the history of Canadian Business.

Introduction
Organization of the Book
Part I: The Age of Business Consolidation, 1885-1930
1. The Road to Craigellachie: Business in Canada to 1885
Commercial Beginnings
Networks and Communities
Ties that Bind
2. Commanding Heights
Finance Capitalism in Canada
Money Markets and Mergers
Wealth and Power in Canada
3. Networks of Progress
Electrical Utilities
Railways
4. Gifts of Nature
The Wheat Boom
Mining
Forestry Products
5. Nation Builders
Revolution in Retailing
Manufacturing Patterns
Textiles
Iron and Steel
A Foreign Presence
6. Integration and Disintegration
Controlling the Workplace
The Roots of Regional Inequality
The Persistence of Small Business
Part II: The Age of the Activist State, 1930-1984
7. The Incomplete Leviathan
The Regulatory Impulse
Confronting the Great Depression
8. The Arsenal Economy
World War I
World War II
Mobilization for Cold War, 1949-59
9. Province Builders
The Rise of the West
'Maîtres Chez Nous'
The Perils of Province-Building
10. Mandarins and Multinationals
The Caretaker State
The Multinational Storm
Part III: Canada in the New Era of Globalization, 1980 to the Present
11. Canadians Abroad
Bankers in Warmer Climates
The Globalization of the Insurance Business
The Resource Multinationals
Manufacturing (and Other) Multinationals
12. Fortune's Favourites
All in the Family
Conglomerators
A (Partial) Changing of the Guard
13. Into the Millennium
'Open for Business'
The Crowns Depart
Travails of the 'New Economy'
Return of the 'Old Economy'
'Hollowed Out'?
Notes
Further Readings
Index

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Graham Taylor is a professor in the history department at Trent University. His research interests focus on international business and American-Canadian business history.

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Special Features

  • Comprehensive. Starting in 1885 and covering into the new millennium, the text gives students a thorough overview of Canadian business history, including discussion of key themes in relation to the pre-Confederation era.
  • Current. The only book of its kind to contain up-to-date discussion of such current topics as the influence of globalization on the Canadian business environment and the multinational experience, it provides students with a relevant and compelling perspective on Canada's business history.
  • Engaging vignettes. End-of-chapter case studies elaborate the major themes of each chapter to help students identify and understand key concepts.
  • Helpful learning tools. A list of suggested readings organized by theme is included to encourage students to broaden their studies beyond the text.
  • Unique organization. Material is organized thematically to help students and professors make relevant connections between a variety of topics and events in business history.
  • Accessible. The writing is straightforward and jargon-free, making the book highly readable to both business and non-business majors.