Author : Harold A. Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1487521243
This volume collects Innis' published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries.
Author : William Thomas Easterbrook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780886290214
Focusing mainly on the staple theory, this collection of essays clearly shows the impact the great staple trades from cod and fur to newsprint and oil had upon Canadian history. Other significant frames of reference-the role of government, the development of commercial agriculture, the climate of enterprise and capital formation-are also represented.
Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1442616121
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their side. Inspired by the work of economists Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik, editors Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis bring together essays from both historians and economists in this collection to test claims that wealth comes from either protectionism or free trade. With empirical research that spans more than a century of Canadian history, Smart Globalization demonstrates that Canada's success stemmed neither from complete openness to globalization or policies of isolation and self-sufficiency.
Author : Gérard Bouchard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0773574522
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World explores the question of how a culture - a collective consciousness - is born. Gérard Bouchard compares the histories of New World collectivities, which were driven by a dream of freedom and sovereignty, and finds both major differences and striking commonalities in their formation and evolution. He also considers the myths and discursive strategies devised by elites in their efforts to unite and mobilize diversified populations.
Author : Mel Watkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773531440
Mel Watkins is an iconic figure in the development of the 'new' political economy. Bringing together Watkins' scholarly articles, this collection addresses the 'staple thesis' of Canadian economic and political development and the effort to extend Harold Innis' work by considering class relations and the role of the state.
Author : Robert Craig Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802084451
Canada and the First World War is a tribute to esteemed University of Toronto historian Robert Craig Brown, one of Canada's greatest authorities on World War One, and the contributors include a cross-section of his friends, colleagues, contemporaries, and former students.
Author : Donald Grant Creighton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802084187
Creighton examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada's economic and national development.
Author : M.H. Watkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773585257
Contemporary methodologies include the "cliometric" style of historical analysis, econometrics, labour and regional study, and the changing parameters of government spending and public finance. The juxtaposition of classic theoretical statements with works by "outsiders" such as G.S. Kealey, B.D. Palmer, R.T. Naylor, R.E Ommer, among others, makes this a solid yet innovative record of the progress in economics over the last forty years. Canadian Economic History remains an essential classroom text.
Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1442646896
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questions of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0773511059
In this collection of essays the distinguished and internationally renowned philosopher Charles Taylor examines federalism and nationalism in Canada, emphasising issues surrounding the Canada/Quebec question in the last twenty-five years. He analyses the singularity of Quebec within the larger Canadian mosaic, providing a reasoned defence for the recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness within a reformed federal system.
