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Reinventing the economic history of industrialisation
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial ...
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A vision greater than themselves
A richly illustrated history of the making of Canada’s first bank revealed through carefully chosen images, themes, and objects.
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Why botswana prospered
While most of Africa has been described as a political and economic disaster zone, Botswana stands out as a democracy that has had rapid economic growth for more than three decades. Clark Leith traces the evolution of Botswana's economic policies and democratic political systems and the forces th...
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From charity to change
A timely contribution to the current debate on the legitimacy of organized philanthropy in an era of increasing social division and inequality, in From Charity to Change Hilary Pearson draws on personal experience and interviews with foundation leaders from across Canada to make a compelling case...
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Quotations for the fast lane
A indispensable reference for finding the right thing to say at the right time.
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British businessmen and canadian confederation
Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep B...
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North of athabasca
The fur trade has been an important building block in Canada's history. While much is known about the Hudson's Bay Company, information about the North West Company in the Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Districts has been scattered in various archives. In North of Athabasca Lloyd Keith provides t...
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A world away
The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-cl...
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Capitalism xxl
Capitalism XXL calls for changing the rules of capitalism in order to tame giant corporations and restore the individual to the world economy. Noels proposes an approach that considers human dimensions and describes a sustainable future economy that will not burden subsequent generations with deb...
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Amassing power
At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the t...
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Elinor ostrom and the bloomington school
Exploring the legacy of a trailblazing economist and Nobel Prize winner.
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Stikeman elliott
The recent history of a leading Canadian law firm.
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A measure of wealth
The land tax duplicates -- which ostensibly provide a complete yearly inventory of all landowners and tenants in every county in the United Kingdom, parish by parish -- are considered the most important systematic documentation available on British landed society between the Domesday Book of 1086...
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The persistence of unemployment
In The Persistence of Unemployment Stephen Jones presents a comprehensive assessment of persistent unemployment, specifically hysteresis, in Canadian labour markets.
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The state of economics in canada
Each article in this collection addresses a particular field or issue in the discipline of economics and surveys the state of knowledge in this area in Canada, pointing out gaps in the knowledge base and directions for future research. Contributors include Richard Bird (University of Toronto), Ro...
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Enduring work
Comparing the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, and integrating the perspectives of employers both reluctant and reckless, Catherine Connelly unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program and offers nuanced strategies t...
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Making a killing
Making a Killing explores the often-overlooked world of terrorist financing and the involvement of the international banking system. Ian Oxnevad seeks to assess how effective new laws and regulations have been, as well as to identify best practices for future attempts to counter the financing of ...
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Gross national product, canada, 1870-1926
Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates sets out in detail the sources of data and methods employed to obtain annual estimates of the gross national product of Canada between 1870 and 1926. Many other data used in compilation of the estimates or as a basis for a...
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Canada and the cost of world war ii
Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking Maturing in Hard Times, legend...
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Expect miracles
David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...
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Generation why
Based on hundreds of interviews conducted with under-thirty-year-olds across the globe, as well as executives’ perspectives on changing dynamics in the workplace, Generation Why provides a thorough study of how the worldview of millennials and generation Z informs their ideas about truth, hierarc...
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Boys in the pits
Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's indus...
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Keeping canada running
In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild...
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Tug of war
Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.
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