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The hub for Canadian business history
The CBHA is a community of scholars, archivists, students, professionals, and business leaders dedicated to advancing the study, preservation, and promotion of business history in Canada.
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Preserve, Present, and Engage
We aim to encourage more studies of Canadian enterprise, help build and maintain well-structured open business archives, provide a forum for business historians and professionals to connect, and encourage research projects on relevant subjects via resources and funding.
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Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada’s Involvement in the First World War.
Review by Peter Price
The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman.
Review by Ryan Manucha
Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada.
Review by Dr. Bettina Liverant
Selling Britishness: Commodity Culture, The Dominions, and Empire.
Review by Jodey Nurse
The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future.
Review by Jeremy Mosher
The Currency of Politics. The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
Review by Catherine Desbarat
A Legacy of Exploitation: Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
Review by M. Max Hamon
No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot
Review by Jeremy Mosher
Empire Incorporated: The Corporations that built British Colonialism
Review by Helen Dewar
Liquor and the Liberal State: Order Before Prohibition
Review by W. M. Wilson