<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - Economic History]]> https://www.thebookco.com Mon, 11 May 2026 05:52:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Cheating (The Human Project and its Betrayal)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/cheating-the-human-project-and-its-betrayal-9781916517233 Sat, 09 May 2026 17:27:04 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/cheating-the-human-project-and-its-betrayal-9781916517233 Cheating (The Human Project and its Betrayal) by Fred Harrison, 9781916517233Five thousand years ago, humanity made a huge mistake. The income generated from shared land, known as economic rent, was taken by chiefs and priests instead of being used for everyone's benefit. Every unfair tax, every preventable death from poverty, and every financial crash since can be traced ..

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]]> Cheating (The Human Project and its Betrayal) by Fred Harrison, 9781916517233Five thousand years ago, humanity made a huge mistake. The income generated from shared land, known as economic rent, was taken by chiefs and priests instead of being used for everyone's benefit. Every unfair tax, every preventable death from poverty, and every financial crash since can be traced ..

Price: $39.99

]]> <![CDATA[Bittersweet Empire (Billionaire Sugar Barons and the Ghosts of Slavery)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/bittersweet-empire-9780063465619 Sat, 09 May 2026 13:16:25 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/bittersweet-empire-9780063465619 Bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Sandy Tolan exposes the bitter history behind the powerful, secretive sugar industry, and the Fanjuls, the Succession-like family who owns Domino Sugar and profits from it the most.

For well over a century—going b..

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]]> Bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Sandy Tolan exposes the bitter history behind the powerful, secretive sugar industry, and the Fanjuls, the Succession-like family who owns Domino Sugar and profits from it the most.

For well over a century—going b..

Price: $32.00

]]> Bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Sandy Tolan exposes the bitter history behind the powerful, secretive sugar industry, and the Fanjuls, the Succession-like family who owns Domino Sugar and profits from it the most.

For well over a century—going b..]]> <![CDATA[Trade and Commerce (Canada's Economic Constitution)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/trade-and-commerce-9780228016465 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:52:10 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/trade-and-commerce-9780228016465 Trade and Commerce (Canada's Economic Constitution) by Malcolm Lavoie, 9780228016465

In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada’s Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures economic relations.

As Malc..

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]]> Trade and Commerce (Canada's Economic Constitution) by Malcolm Lavoie, 9780228016465

In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada’s Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures economic relations.

As Malc..

Price: $49.95

]]> In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada’s Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures economic relations.

As Malc..]]> <![CDATA[Canadian Economic History (Classic and Contemporary Approaches)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/canadian-economic-history-9780886291815 Sat, 02 May 2026 11:11:32 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/canadian-economic-history-9780886291815 Canadian Economic History (Classic and Contemporary Approaches) by Mel Watkins, John Webster Grant, 9780886291815

This seminal collection contains formative articles on Canadian economic history by W.A. Mackintosh, Mel Watkins, and Harold Innis as well as thirteen more current contributions. These essays frame the classic staples thesis in terms of its significance and applications for the field while dra..

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]]> Canadian Economic History (Classic and Contemporary Approaches) by Mel Watkins, John Webster Grant, 9780886291815

This seminal collection contains formative articles on Canadian economic history by W.A. Mackintosh, Mel Watkins, and Harold Innis as well as thirteen more current contributions. These essays frame the classic staples thesis in terms of its significance and applications for the field while dra..

Price: $37.95

]]> This seminal collection contains formative articles on Canadian economic history by W.A. Mackintosh, Mel Watkins, and Harold Innis as well as thirteen more current contributions. These essays frame the classic staples thesis in terms of its significance and applications for the field while dra..]]> <![CDATA[Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation]]> https://www.thebookco.com/reinventing-the-economic-history-of-industrialisation-9780228000914 Sat, 02 May 2026 08:28:07 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/reinventing-the-economic-history-of-industrialisation-9780228000914 Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello, 9780228000914

The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industria..

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]]> Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello, 9780228000914

The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industria..

Price: $39.95

]]> The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industria..]]> <![CDATA[Canada in the Age of Rum]]> https://www.thebookco.com/canada-in-the-age-of-rum-9780228026891 Sat, 02 May 2026 08:01:11 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/canada-in-the-age-of-rum-9780228026891 Canada in the Age of Rum by Allan Greer, 9780228026891

Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply a comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people. Why rum, and why ..

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]]> Canada in the Age of Rum by Allan Greer, 9780228026891

Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply a comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people. Why rum, and why ..

Price: $28.95

]]> Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply a comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people. Why rum, and why ..]]> <![CDATA[Turbulent Empires (A History of Global Capitalism since 1945)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/turbulent-empires-9780773553217 Sat, 02 May 2026 04:50:01 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/turbulent-empires-9780773553217 Turbulent Empires (A History of Global Capitalism since 1945) by Mike Mason, 9780773553217

As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time that the United States extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for post..

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]]> Turbulent Empires (A History of Global Capitalism since 1945) by Mike Mason, 9780773553217

As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time that the United States extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for post..

Price: $40.95

]]> As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time that the United States extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for post..]]> <![CDATA[The Big Picture (The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Nova Scotia)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-big-picture-9780773540156 Sat, 02 May 2026 03:50:18 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-big-picture-9780773540156 The Big Picture (The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Nova Scotia) by Santo Dodaro, Leonard Pluta, 9780773540156

In the 1930s, when the competitive, free market system lay in ruins and the competing systems of fascism and communism were gaining strength, the Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way." The movement favoured putting in place an integrated and dynamic system based on cooperative eco..

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]]> The Big Picture (The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Nova Scotia) by Santo Dodaro, Leonard Pluta, 9780773540156

In the 1930s, when the competitive, free market system lay in ruins and the competing systems of fascism and communism were gaining strength, the Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way." The movement favoured putting in place an integrated and dynamic system based on cooperative eco..

Price: $39.95

]]> In the 1930s, when the competitive, free market system lay in ruins and the competing systems of fascism and communism were gaining strength, the Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way." The movement favoured putting in place an integrated and dynamic system based on cooperative eco..]]> <![CDATA[Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada]]> https://www.thebookco.com/land-power-and-economics-on-the-frontier-of-upper-canada-9780773521940 Sat, 02 May 2026 03:04:18 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/land-power-and-economics-on-the-frontier-of-upper-canada-9780773521940 Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada by John Clarke, 9780773521940

In this thorough study of an important period, Upper Canadian attitudes to land and society are shown to have been built on contemporary visions of the cosmos. John Clarke examines the actions of individuals from the perspective of the political culture and its manifestations, doing so within t..

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]]> Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada by John Clarke, 9780773521940

In this thorough study of an important period, Upper Canadian attitudes to land and society are shown to have been built on contemporary visions of the cosmos. John Clarke examines the actions of individuals from the perspective of the political culture and its manifestations, doing so within t..

Price: $45.95

]]> In this thorough study of an important period, Upper Canadian attitudes to land and society are shown to have been built on contemporary visions of the cosmos. John Clarke examines the actions of individuals from the perspective of the political culture and its manifestations, doing so within t..]]> <![CDATA[Identity Captured by Law (Membership in Canada's Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/identity-captured-by-law-9780773535046 Sat, 02 May 2026 01:20:16 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/identity-captured-by-law-9780773535046 Identity Captured by Law (Membership in Canada's Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities) by Sébastien Grammond, 9780773535046

In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-language minorities benefit from certain rights that are not available to the rest of the population, but exactly who can claim membership in these groups remains a controversial issue. Protecting a group's culture and resources is often seen to be at ..

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]]> Identity Captured by Law (Membership in Canada's Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities) by Sébastien Grammond, 9780773535046

In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-language minorities benefit from certain rights that are not available to the rest of the population, but exactly who can claim membership in these groups remains a controversial issue. Protecting a group's culture and resources is often seen to be at ..

Price: $34.95

]]> In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-language minorities benefit from certain rights that are not available to the rest of the population, but exactly who can claim membership in these groups remains a controversial issue. Protecting a group's culture and resources is often seen to be at ..]]>