Jim Blanchard, Thinking Big: A History of the Winnipeg Business Community to the Second World War, Winnipeg, MB: Great Plains Publications, 2021. vi + 252pp., illustrations, endnotes. Paper; ISBN 9781773370590, $24.95.

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Douglas Panting
Winnipeg, MB

Stephen R. Bown, The Company: The Rise and Fall of The Hudson’s Bay’s Empire, Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2020, ix + 486pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780385694070, $37.00, Paper; ISBN 9780385694094, $24.95.

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Scott Berthelette
Queen’s University

Brian Gettler, Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950, Montréal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020,  xvii + 301pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780228001171, $120.00, Paper; ISBN 9780228001188, $37.95.

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George Colpitts
University of Calgary

Note:  View a discussion of a talk with author Brian Gettler on is book on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube Channel HERE.

Andrea Benoit, Viva M·A·C: Aids, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of M·A·C Cosmetics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. x + 278pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN /9781487500405, $82.00, Paper; ISBN 9781487520281, $31.05.

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Catherine Carstairs
University of Guelph

Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, xvi + 645pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9780691137544, US$39.95, Paper; ISBN: 9780691217024, US$29.95.

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Éric Pecile
University of Toronto

Barry E.C. Boothman, Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912-1946, University of Toronto Press, 2020. xxviii + 645pp., figures, tables, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN:  9781487505561, Cdn$95.00.

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Virginia Torrie
University of Manitoba

Gelina Harlaftis. Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820-1970. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,  2019. xxiv + 375 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, appendices, indices.  Cloth: ISBN 9781108475396, £90.00, Cdn$137.50.

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Walter Lewis
Grafton, ON

Don Pillar and Aubrey Ferguson, The Golden Years: Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup Hockey Picture Promotion, 1934-1968. [n.p.]: [published privately], 2020. iv + 296 pp., illustrations, endnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9781771367431, Cdn$52.50.

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Mark Kuhlberg
Laurentian University

Virginia Torrie, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.xvi + 300pp., table, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; 9781487506421, $75.00.

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Tim Kennish
Toronto, Ontario

Nathan Marcus, Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921-1931. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. ix + 546pp., illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780674088924, US$51.50.

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William A. Allen
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
London, England

Donica Belisle, Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of a Canadian Consumer Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. ix + 262pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9781442631137, $85.00, Paper; ISBN 9781442629110, $29.95.

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Bettina Liverant
University of Calgary

Ron Harris, Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiii + 465pp., maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9780691150772, US$39.95.

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Éric Pecile
University of Toronto

Matthew J. Bellamy, Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt’s. Montréal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. xiii + 451pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780773559158, Cdn $34.95.

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Michael Dove
Western University

Robert Bickers, China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980, London: Bloomsbury, 2020. ix + 534pp., illustrations, photographs, archival sources, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9781472949943,  £27.00.

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Marc Levinson
Washington, DC

Charles Williams, Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman. London: Biteback Publishing, 2019. x + 566pp., illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9781849547468, £25.00, eBook; ISBN: 9781785900303, £19.99.

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Gregory P. Marchildon
University of Toronto

Helen Antoniou, Back to Beer ... and Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson. Montréal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. xiii + 451pp., illustrations, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9780773552876, Cdn $34.95.

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Steven Bright
Oakville, Ontario

Paul D. Earl, The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2019. xiv + 349pp. photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paper; ISBN: 978-0-88755-844-3, $27.95.

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Joe Martin
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto

Tirthankar Roy, A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xiv + 298pp. figures, maps, tables, references, bibliography. Cloth; ISBN: 9781107186927, £59.99, Paper; ISBN: 9781316637487, £24.99. 

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Sanjeev Kumar
Oakville , ON

Caitlin Rosenthal, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xiv + 295pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780674972094, US $35.00, Paper; ISBN 9780674241657, US $18.95.

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Cheryl Susan McWatters
University of Ottawa

A. Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917. Montréal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. xvi + 582pp., figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780773549623, Cdn $39.95.

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Herb Emery
University of New Brunswick

Fredrik S. Eaton, Between Stone and Stars: A Memoir. Toronto, ON: Barlow Books, 2018. v + 276pp., photographs, resources. Cloth: Cdn $20.00.

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William Fong
Montréal, Quebec

Paul Blustein, Laid Low: Inside the Crisis that Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF. Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2016. xv + 485pp., Cloth; ISBN 978-1-928096-33-7, Cdn $110.00, Paper; ISBN 978-192-8096-25-2, Cdn $28.00.

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Sevda Sparks
University of Toronto

Graham D. Taylor, Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2019. xii + 368pp., maps, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Paper; ISBN 978-1-77385-035-1, $39.99, EPUB; ISBN 978-1-77385-038-2, MOBI; ISBN 978-1-77385-039-9.

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Andrew Watson
University of Saskatchewan

Professor Graham Taylor’s Reply to Professor Andrew Watson’s Review.  Read the Reply HERE.

William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence and the Pillage of an Empire. London and New York, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. illustrations, maps,  xxxv + 522pp. illustrations, maps. Cloth; ISBN: 9781635573954, £27.49, US $35.00.

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Sanjeev Kumar
Toronto, Ontario

Scott P. Stephen, Master and Servants: The Hudson’s Bay Company and its North American Workforce, 1668-1786.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2019,  xxxix + 407pp., illustrations, maps, plans, notes, bibliography, index.  Paper: ISBN 978-1-77212-337-1, $44.99, EPUB: ISBN 1-77212-497-2, $44.99, Kindle; ISBN 978-1-77212-498-9, $44.99, PDF: ISBN 978-1-77212-499-6, $44.99.

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Ann M. Carlos
University of Colorado Boulder

Norman B. Keevil, Never Rest on Your Ores: Building A Mining Company, One Stone at a Time. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. xix + 496pp., photographs, maps, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780773551558, $39.95.

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Mark Kuhlberg
Laurentian University

Jason Russell, Making Managers in Canada, 1945-1995: Companies, Colleges, and Universities. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. vii + 248pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9781138691315, Cdn $140.00.

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Patricia Genoe McLaren
Wilfrid Laurier University

Michael Stamm, Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press 2018. xv + 353pp., illustrations, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9781421426051, US$ 49.95.

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Barry E.C. Boothman
University of New Brunswick, (Ret.)

Mike Mason, Turbulent Empires: A History of Global Capitalism since 1945. Montreal, PQ, Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2018. xiii + 329 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-5321-7, Cdn $39.95. 

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Éric Pecile
University of Toronto

Paul Rutherford, The Adman’s Dilemma: From Barnum to Trump. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2018. x + 456pp., tables, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9781487503901, Cdn $110.00, Paper; ISBN 9781487522988, Cdn $39.95.

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Michael Stamm
University of Michigan

Thomas G. W. Telfer, Ruin and Redemption: The Struggle for a Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867-1919. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 2014. xviii + 297pp., figures, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-8020-9343-1, Cdn $77.00.

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Jeffrey L. McNairn
Queen’s University

Michael Zakim, Accounting for Capitalism. The World the Clerk Made. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix + 247pp., illustrations, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780226977973, US $50.00.

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Jason Russell
SUNY – Empire State College
Cheektowaga, NY

Phil Lind with Robert Brehl, Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Guided the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur. Toronto: Barlow Books, 2018. xii + 357pp., photographs, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-988-02533-9, Cdn $29.99.

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Minko Sotiron
John Abbott College
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, PQ

R. W. Sandwell, ed., Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. xi + 482pp., map, figures, tables, plates, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-4785-8, Cdn $120.00, Paper; ISBN 978-0-7735-4786-5, Cdn $ 37.95.

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Colin M. Coates
Glendon College
York University

David Tough, The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of Canadian Political Imaginary. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2018. xii + 185pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7748-3677-7, Cdn $89.95, Paper; ISBN 978-0-7748-3678-4, Cdn $32.95, PDF; ISBN 978-0-7748-3679-1, Cdn $32.95, EPUB; ISBN 978-0- 7748-3680-7, Cdn $32.95, Kindle; ISBN 978-0-7748-3681-4, Cdn $32.95.

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Éric Pecile
University of Toronto

Beth Parker, Unstoppable: The story of asset-based finance and leasing in Canada. Toronto, ON: Barlow Book Publishing, 2015. 303pp., tables, graphs, photographs, endnotes, appendices, index. Paper; ISBN 978-1-988025-04-9, Cdn $25.99, ebook; ISBN978-l-988025-04-9, Cdn $12.99.

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Tim Kennish
Toronto, ON

Michael Dawson, Selling Out or Buying In?  Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985.  Toronto, ON:  University of Toronto Press, 2018.  xii+215 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.  Cloth; ISBN 9781487512201, Cdn. $70.00, Paper, ISBN 9781487521868, Cdn. $27.95.

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Sarah Elvins
University of Manitoba

Alexia M. Yates, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. v + 353pp., figures, graphs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth ISBN 978-0-674-08821-4, US $51.50.

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E. A. Heaman
McGill University

J. Andrew Ross, Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. xv + 442 pp, photographs, figures, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780815633839, Cdn $81.00, distributed in Canada by Scholarly Book Services, Inc.

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Diego M. Coraiola
AugustanaCampus
University of Alberta

Janice Thiessen, Snacks: A Canadian Food History. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. v + 344pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper; ISBN 978-0-88755-799-6, Cdn $27.95, PDF; ISBN 978-0-88755-529-9, Cdn $25.00, EPUB; ISBN 978-0-88755- 527-5, Cdn $25.00.

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Patrice Dutil
Ryerson University

Richard J. Grace, Opium and Empire: The Lives of William Jardine and James Matheson.  Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014, 2016. xvii + 453pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-4452-9, Cdn $34.95, Paper; ISBN 978-0-7735-4726-1, Cdn $ 29.95.

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Sevda Sparks
University of Toronto

Paul Halpern, Caroline Cakebread, Christopher C. Nicholls and Poonam Puri,  Back From the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis. Toronto, ON: Rotman-UTP Publishing, University of Toronto Press, 2016. xv + 251 pp., figures, tables, notes, index.  Cloth; ISBN 978-1-4426-1, Cdn $35.95.

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Geoffrey Poitras
Simon Fraser University

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2016. xlii + 787pp., figures, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN: 9780226333991, U. S. $ 45.00, Paper ISBN: 9780226527932, U. S. $ 32.00.

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David González Agudo
University of British Columbia

Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin, From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian Finance. Toronto, ON: Rotman-UTP Publishing, University of Toronto Press, 2018. xi + 401pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-4426-4821-0, Cdn $90.00, Paper ISBN 978-1-4426-1625-7, Cdn $34.95, ePub ISBN 978-1-4426-1632-5, Cdn $34.95, PDF ISBN 978-14426-1631-8, Cdn $34.95.

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Christopher Armstrong
York University

Bettina Liverant, Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2018. Xi+291pp., figures, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7748-3513-8, Cdn $89.95, Paper; ISBN 978-0-7748-3514-5, Cdn $34.95, EPUB; ISBN 978-0-7748-3516-9, Cdn $34.95. PDF; ISBN 978-0-7748-3515-2, Cdn $34.95.

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James Hull
University of British Columbia
Okanagan Campus

Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 2016. xix + 421 pp., illustrations, notes, sources, index. Cloth, ISBN: 9780226360300 U.S. $105.00, Paper ISBN 9780226360447 U.S. $35.00.

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Emily Buchnea
Northumbria University

James Muir, Law, Debt, and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2016. xiv + 282pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-4875-0103-7, Cdn $70.00, Paper; ISBN 978-1-4875-2316-9, Cdn $34.95.

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Douglas McCalla
University of Guelph

Norman Bacal, Breakdown: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Heenan Blaikie. Toronto: Barlow Book Publishing, 2017. xix + 331pp., illustrations, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-988025-15-5, Cdn $29.95.

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Tim Kennish
Toronto, Ontario

Steven G. Marks, The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the Renaissance to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiv + 250pp., notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-107-10868-4 £54.99, Paper; ISBN 978-1-107-51963-3 £19.99.

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Amir Lavie
University of Toronto

Shirley Tillotson, Give and Take: The Citizen Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. vi + 438 pp. illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth: ISBN 9780774836722 Cdn. $ 39.95, pdf ISBN 97807748346 Cd. $ 39.95, epub ISBN 9780774836753 Cdn. $39.95.

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Graham Taylor 
Trent University

Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis, eds., Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xi + 239 pp., maps, figures, tables, notes,  index. Cloth; ISBN  9781442648043, Cdn $67.00;  Paperback; ISBN 9781442616127. Cdn $27.95.

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Andrew Watson
University of Saskatchewan

Douglas McCalla, Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Canada. Montréal, PQ & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xv + 296pp., map, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Paper; 978-07735-4500-7, Cdn $34.95.

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Bettina Liverant
University of Calgary

Craig Toomey, Up and to the Right: The Story of John W. Dobson and His Formula Growth Fund. Montréal, PQ & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xxiii + 189 pp. photographs, figures, appendices. Cloth;  ISBN 978-0-7735-4379-9, Cdn $ 29.95.

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Justin Douglas
University of Toronto

John F. Wilson, Steven Toms, Abe de Jong, and Emily Buchnea, eds., The Routledge Companion to Business History. London and New York: Routledge , 2017. xiv + 394 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-415-85556-3 U.S. $240.00; Ebook; ISBN 978-0-203-73603-6 U.S. $67.95.

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Patricia Genoe McLaren
Wilfrid Laurier University

David M. Culver with Alan Freeman, Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life. Montréal, PQ & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xi + 233pp., photographs. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-4355-3, Cdn $34.95.

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Keith Fleming
Western University

Matthew Evenden, Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War. University of Toronto Press (utorontopress.com), 2015. xii + 273pp, figures, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, ISBN 9781442648500 Cdn $75.00, Paperback, ISBN 9781442626256 Cdn $32.95.

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Mark Kuhlberg
Laurentian University

Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (Cloth) 2014, (Paperback) 2015. Vol. 1: xii+616pp, Vol. 2: x+657pp. figures, tables, references, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-107-03694-9, Cdn $301.95, Paperback; ISBN 978-1-107-58459-4, Cdn $82.95.

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Eric Pecile
University of Toronto

Donald J. Savoie, Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose. Montréal, PQ & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. xii + 336 pp., illustrations, endnotes, appendices, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780773543218, Cdn $29.95.

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Jon Mackay
Wilfrid Laurier University

Robert C. H. Sweeny, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819-1849. Montréal, PQ & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xx + 436 pp., maps, figures, tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-0-7735-4537-3, Cdn $110.00; Paperback; ISBN 978-0-7735-4538-0, Cdn $39.95.

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Daniel Simeone
McGill University

André Magnan, When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canadian-UK Grain Trade. The University of British Columbia Press [www.ubcpress.ca], 2016. viii + 205 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index. Paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-3114-7 Cdn 32.95.

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Matthew J. Bellamy
Carleton University