LEADER 04271nam 2200733 450 001 9910780565503321 005 20230912153342.0 010 $a1-282-00327-5 010 $a9786612003271 010 $a1-4426-7880-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678804 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004296 035 $a(OCoLC)666907434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000307045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205526 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10242809 035 $a(PQKB)11602219 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600125 035 $a(DE-B1597)464779 035 $a(OCoLC)944177697 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678804 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671859 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257549 035 $a(OCoLC)958571705 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/cgkjhw 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671859 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105125 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254981 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004296 100 $a20160923h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProfits and politics $eBeaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian finance /$fGregory P. Marchildon 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1996. 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-0740-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Max Aitken and the Nature of Finance Capitalism during the Laurier Boom -- 2. Circuitous Road to Halifax, 1879-1904 -- 3. Caribbean Adventurer -- 4. Building the Royal Securities Corporation -- 5. The Montreal Engineering Company -- 6. The Takeover and Transformation of Montreal Trust -- 7. Hubris and the Young Financier -- 8. Manufacturing the Canada Cement Company -- 9. Merger Promoter Extraordinaire -- 10. Combines, Canada Cement, and the Reciprocity Election -- 11. Conclusion: From Profits to Politics -- Appendix. The First Canadian Merger Wave in International Perspective. 330 8 $aMarchildon walks us through the machinations, uncertainties, and bravado that went into Aitken's world of promoting, financing, and stockbroking. He describes in riveting detail the playing out of the great mergers in Canadian politics and business life - most notably that of Stelco and Canada Cement. We see the inner workings of finance capitalism, coloured by many remarkable personalities of the day, and we learn how Aitken's innovative tactics made him a very rich man while still in his twenties. This is a deeply textured account of the dynamics of the securities market in the formative years at the beginning of the twentieth century. 330 $aIt has been said of Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) that 'no other Canadian carved his name so large upon his times.' A manipulative, self-serving charmer with immense business acumen, Aitken knew all the important Canadian financiers of his day, and repeatedly demonstrated his remarkable skill for making money in the field of corporate finance. In this book Gregory Marchildon looks at the entrepreneurial history of Max Aitken and his core enterprise, the Royal Securities Corporation. A penetrating study of investment banking and financial capitalism during the Laurier boom years, the book also deals more generally with the relationship between Canadian politics and imperial ideology before the Great War. 606 $aConsolidation and merger of corporations$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aBusiness and politics$zCanada$xHistory 607 $aCanada$xEconomic conditions$y1867-1918 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConsolidation and merger of corporations$xHistory. 615 0$aBusiness and politics$xHistory. 676 $a338.830951 700 $aMarchildon$b Gregory P.$f1956-$01464508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780565503321 996 $aProfits and politics$93787619 997 $aUNINA