Mark Kuhlberg

In the Power of the Government

The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781442614536
• ISBN-10: 1442614536
• Artikelnr.: 41626982

Autorenporträt

Mark Kuhlberg is a professor and MA Coordinator in the Department of History at Laurentian University and is a leading authority on Canada’s forest history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: The Setting and The Liberals, 1894–1905
1. The Natural and Political Landscapes
2. “Intent Upon Getting Grain-Growing Settlers Upon the New Land”: The
Liberals, 1894–1905
Section II:  “Large Tracts of Land Are Not Necessary for the Business of
Any Company”: The Conservatives, 1905–1919
Introduction
3. “We Have Been Most Lenient in Allowing the Company to Run On”
4. “The Jack-Ass Methods of That Department”
Section III: “In Order to Keep in Office, They Must Play Politics”: The
United Farmers of Ontario, 1919–1923
Introduction
5. “This Government Should … Exercise Responsibility of Dealing with
Tenders”
6. “Established Industries which … Have But Scant Supply”
Section IV:  “The Chief is the Whole Show”: The Conservatives, 1923–1932
Introduction
7. “For Political Purposes”
8. “Political Connections of the Strongest Kind”
9. “Excluded from the Area Given to Spruce Falls”
10. “No Definite Commitment Has Ever Been Made by This Department”
11. “We Shall Continue to Paddle Our Own Canoe”
Conclusion: “The Availability of Wood for Industry Is Ambiguous”