The History of Canadian Business
R.T. Naylor

Black Rose Books

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The History of Canadian Business: 1867-1914 

R.T. Naylor, foreword by Eric Kierans and introduction by Mel Watkins

 

Sometimes grand, more often sordid, this reissue of the 1975 classic tells the story of the development of Canadian big business from Confederation to the First World War. It is at once a treatise on economic development -from banks and railways to industrial trusts and commercial cartels - and of what would today be called white collar crime. 

Broadly praised and roundly condemned at the time of publication, since then The History of Canadian Business has been acknowledged by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the most outstanding works ever written in Canadian economic history, on par with Harold Innis' The Fur Trade in Canada. 

Praise for The History of Canadian Business

"Eminently readable, Naylor writes of economic history driven by people, with all their wants... Serious scholar though he most certainly is, Naylor is also a part of that great tradition of muckracking that is so sorely needed if we are to have a rounded portrait of business." - Mel Watkins, University of Toronto

"If he calls a spade a spade, then Professor Naylor is also recognizing that it is also the business of the historian not only to lay bare the facts but also to do so in a manner that communicates the real meaning and import of what did happen." - Eric Kierans, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University

R.T. Naylor was a professor of economics at McGill University who received his Ph.d. from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including The Dominion of Debt, Bankers Bagmen and Bandits, and the highly acclaimed Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, all from Black Rose Books. 

1997; 354 pages 

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