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Mark Bourrie, Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul, Biblioasis, 2022. 414 pages, ISBN 9781771964944, $24.95. Read the book review HERE.
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Susan E. Schoop, Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698-1842, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. xii + 193pp., plates, tables, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; ISBN 978-988-8528-50-9. HK$570.00. Read the book review HERE.
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Mark Kuhlberg, Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War Against Forest Pests, 1913-1930, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2022, xx + 261pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; ISBN 9781487508975 $95.00, Paper; ISBN: 9781487526474 $42.95. Read the book
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Laurence B. Mussio, Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance, Vol. One: A Dominion of Capital, 1817-1945, Vol. Two: Territories of Transformation, 1946-2017, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Vol. One: xxxix + 339pp., Vol.
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Barrie A. Wigmore, The Financial Crisis of 2008: A History of US Financial Markets, 2000-2012, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. viii + 410pp., figures, tables, index. Hardback; ISBN: 978-1-108-83763-7, Cdn $45.95. Read the book review HERE.
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Daniel J. Robinson, Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, xiii + 338pp., figures, notes, index. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780228005315 $130.00, Paperback, ISBN 9780228005322 $37.95 Read the book review HERE.
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Kathryn S. Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Newspaper Barons Who Enabled Hitler, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2022. x + 314pp., photographs, notes, index. Hardcover; ISBN: 9780300256420. US $30.00. Read the book review HERE.
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Martin Horn, J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism: From the Wall Street Crash to World War II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022. xii +393pp., footnotes, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781108498371. £29.99, Cdn$45.95. Read
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Ross Cranston, Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830-1970, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. xliv + 484pp., figures, tables, index. Cloth; ISBN: 978-1-107-19889-0, Cdn$126.95. Read the book review HERE.
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Zachary Austin Doleshal, In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894–1945, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2021. xvi + 272pp., figures, table, notes, bibliography, index. Paper; ISBN:9781487524449. Read the book review HERE.