History Of Cdn Business 1867-1914

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 Scie...