Dominion of Capital

Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society / McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCanadian Capital in the Age of EmpirePart One: Big Business from Triumph to CrisisChapter OneProvincial Man of Mystery:Howard P. Robinson and the Politics of Capital in New BrunswickChapter TwoCharles A. Dunning:A Progressive in Business and PoliticsChapter ThreeThe Dilemma of Democracy:Sir Edward Beatty, the Railway Question, and National GovernmentPart Two: Continentalism and the Managerial EthicChapter FourStewardship and Dependency:Sam McLaughlin, General Motors, and the Labour QuestionChapter FiveEngineering Canada:C.D. Howe and Canadian Big BusinessConclusionAprÈs le dÉlugeEndnotes

‘Don Nerbas has produced a lively work capable of appealing to undergraduates and the general public.’ - Andrew Smith (Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014) ‘This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students of history, political science, and business offering them a fresh perspective of historical developments that shaped an evolving relationship between capitalists and government during the twentieth century.’ - Dustin Galer (Histoire sociale / Social History; vol 47:92:2014) ‘This important contribution will be read with great profit by those both in and outside of Canada…The aims and goal here are laudable, the Dominion of Capital makes a great contribution to telling the story of the emergence of Canada’s more continental (branch plants and American investment) and mixed (with nationalized railways, for example) economy by the 1950s.’ - Anastakis (American Historical Review October 2014) ‘Nerbas’ volume is an important, thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of Canadian economic and business history in a neglected field of study.’- Hugh Grant (Labour/Le Travail vol 74:2013)