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In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932 - Softcover

Mark Kuhlberg

 
9781442614536: In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1442614536 ISBN 13: 9781442614536
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada's natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case of the Ontario pulp and paper industry to challenge that interpretation of Canadian provincial politics. Examining the relationship between the corporations which ran the province's pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen's Park, Kuhlberg concludes that the Ontario government frequently rebuffed the demands of the industrialists who wanted to tap Ontario's spruce timber and hydro-electric potential. A sophisticated empirical challenge to the orthodox literature on this issue, In the Power of the Government will be essential reading for historians and political scientists interested in the history of Canadian industrial development.

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About the Author

Mark Kuhlberg is an associate professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1442614536
ISBN 13 
9781442614536
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384