Christopher Armstrong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3841732 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher Armstrong |
| NOMBRES | Christopher |
| APELLIDO | Armstrong |
| FIRMA | ARMSTRONG C |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5960-4808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Imagining Uplands
Evan Friss. The Cycling City
Why did the U.S. undergo a sudden upsurge in cycling in the last five years of the nineteenth century? The production of bicycles, which had been only a few thousand a year up to 1893, suddenly began to shoot upward, reaching over 400,000 in 1895 and numbering nearly 1,200,000 by 1899 (34). One obvious answer was that the “pennyfarthing” cycle, with its pedals mounted directly on the hub of the large front wheel, which had been difficult to mount…
Moose Pastures and Mergers
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada's leading securities regulator. Following the war, th…
Ferranti-Packard
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 201 art. He is also among the first to pay attention to V-l and V-2 attacks against Belgium in 1944—45, which outnumbered those against Brit ain. Unfortunately, due to innumerable typographical errors, poor translations, and the irritating use of English measurements, even inside translated quotations, specialists may still need to consult the original work. But all in all, this new edition is a welcome additi…
Ferranti-Packard
Through their case-study of the evolution of a relatively small manufacturer such as Ferranti-Packard, Ball and Vardalas address a number of broader themes in the history of Canadian business and technology. Ferranti-Packard was British-owned and thus provides a revealing subject for the authors' investigation of the impact of foreign direct investment on Canadian industrial and technological capabilities. An important theme in this analysis is t…
Canadian Promoters and American Markets
Canada has long depended heavily upon investment from the United States, particularly in the natural resource sector. Why, in the decade after World War II, did Canadian authorities permit the sale of large quantities of highly speculative mining and oil stocks south of the border in defiance of American law? Why run the risk of angering officials in the United States and perhaps endangering access to capital markets there? The financial communit…
Monopoly's Moment
This book explores the struggle to build and regulate Canada's utilities, and the response to the problem of monopoly inherent in these technologies. Using primary sources, the authors have chosen examples from all regions of the country. The book illustrates how regionally distinctive operations of utilities, which relied heavily on public ownership, created a diverse, yet highly integrated utilities sector. It shows that regulation, even more t…
Business History and the Buried Treasures of the Theory of Value
BUSINESS HISTORY IS ALWAYS SOMEWHAT tributary to the economic theories historians have been impregnated with. However objective or polemical they are deemed by their contemporaries, historians of business cannot avoid the unescapable: facts are 'theory laden'. The way evidence is selected, processed, digested, concocted, and elaborated remains connected to its previous conceptualizations about human activity, justice, and progress. Considering th…
Tug of War, Ottawa and the Provinces under Trudeau and Mulroney
Engineers & Electrons
A Curious Capital Flow
Though Canada was, in the opening decades of the twentieth century, a net capital importer, Canadian-based companies dominated the Mexican public utilities industry. In this article, Professors Armstrong and Nelles explain how this “curious capital flow” came about. Their explanation stresses the personal ties linking Canadian businessmen to the maverick American engineer-entrepreneur F.S. Pearson. In addition to detailing these ties, they descri…
Canadian Capitalism, a Study of Power in the Canadian Business Establishment
The Politics of Federalism
Federalism and government regulation
Federalism poses special problems for the regulatory activities of the state. In Canada, federal and provincial governments have frequently disagreed over which could best exercise such controls, keeping in mind not only the public interest but also the needs of the private parties involved. The business of insurance is a case in point. The decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council confirmed that the provinces had important powers …
Horny Hands across the Border
Robert H. Babcock. Gompers in Canada: A Study in Ameri- can Continentalism before the First World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. 292 pp. His title succinctly conveys the theme of Professor Babcock's book, and a very fine book it is, undoubtedly a major contribution to the labour history of Canada. Babcock describes the growing domination of the Canadian labour movement prior to 1914 by Samuel Gompers' American Federation of Labo…
Private Property in Peril
Two opposing groups of business interests — large, internationally-oriented financiers on the one hand and local businessmen and small manufacturers on the other — engaged in economically-based political conflict over the proper nature of the federal system in early twentieth-century Canada. The national financial community proved unable to protect its conception of private property rights by legal and political means at the national level, and t…
Tug of War, Ottawa and the Provinces under Trudeau and Mulroney
Canadian Capitalism, a Study of Power in the Canadian Business Establishment
A Curious Capital Flow
Though Canada was, in the opening decades of the twentieth century, a net capital importer, Canadian-based companies dominated the Mexican public utilities industry. In this article, Professors Armstrong and Nelles explain how this “curious capital flow” came about. Their explanation stresses the personal ties linking Canadian businessmen to the maverick American engineer-entrepreneur F.S. Pearson. In addition to detailing these ties, they descri…
The Politics of Federalism
Private Property in Peril
Two opposing groups of business interests — large, internationally-oriented financiers on the one hand and local businessmen and small manufacturers on the other — engaged in economically-based political conflict over the proper nature of the federal system in early twentieth-century Canada. The national financial community proved unable to protect its conception of private property rights by legal and political means at the national level, and t…
Canadian Promoters and American Markets
Canada has long depended heavily upon investment from the United States, particularly in the natural resource sector. Why, in the decade after World War II, did Canadian authorities permit the sale of large quantities of highly speculative mining and oil stocks south of the border in defiance of American law? Why run the risk of angering officials in the United States and perhaps endangering access to capital markets there? The financial communit…
Federalism and government regulation
Federalism poses special problems for the regulatory activities of the state. In Canada, federal and provincial governments have frequently disagreed over which could best exercise such controls, keeping in mind not only the public interest but also the needs of the private parties involved. The business of insurance is a case in point. The decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council confirmed that the provinces had important powers …
Private Property in Peril
Two opposing groups of business interests — large, internationally-oriented financiers on the one hand and local businessmen and small manufacturers on the other — engaged in economically-based political conflict over the proper nature of the federal system in early twentieth-century Canada. The national financial community proved unable to protect its conception of private property rights by legal and political means at the national level, and t…
Federalism and government regulation
Federalism poses special problems for the regulatory activities of the state. In Canada, federal and provincial governments have frequently disagreed over which could best exercise such controls, keeping in mind not only the public interest but also the needs of the private parties involved. The business of insurance is a case in point. The decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council confirmed that the provinces had important powers …
Horny Hands across the Border
Robert H. Babcock. Gompers in Canada: A Study in Ameri- can Continentalism before the First World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. 292 pp. His title succinctly conveys the theme of Professor Babcock's book, and a very fine book it is, undoubtedly a major contribution to the labour history of Canada. Babcock describes the growing domination of the Canadian labour movement prior to 1914 by Samuel Gompers' American Federation of Labo…
Canadian Capitalism, a Study of Power in the Canadian Business Establishment
The Politics of Federalism
A Curious Capital Flow
Though Canada was, in the opening decades of the twentieth century, a net capital importer, Canadian-based companies dominated the Mexican public utilities industry. In this article, Professors Armstrong and Nelles explain how this “curious capital flow” came about. Their explanation stresses the personal ties linking Canadian businessmen to the maverick American engineer-entrepreneur F.S. Pearson. In addition to detailing these ties, they descri…
Engineers & Electrons
Tug of War, Ottawa and the Provinces under Trudeau and Mulroney
Monopoly's Moment
This book explores the struggle to build and regulate Canada's utilities, and the response to the problem of monopoly inherent in these technologies. Using primary sources, the authors have chosen examples from all regions of the country. The book illustrates how regionally distinctive operations of utilities, which relied heavily on public ownership, created a diverse, yet highly integrated utilities sector. It shows that regulation, even more t…
Business History and the Buried Treasures of the Theory of Value
BUSINESS HISTORY IS ALWAYS SOMEWHAT tributary to the economic theories historians have been impregnated with. However objective or polemical they are deemed by their contemporaries, historians of business cannot avoid the unescapable: facts are 'theory laden'. The way evidence is selected, processed, digested, concocted, and elaborated remains connected to its previous conceptualizations about human activity, justice, and progress. Considering th…
Canadian Promoters and American Markets
Canada has long depended heavily upon investment from the United States, particularly in the natural resource sector. Why, in the decade after World War II, did Canadian authorities permit the sale of large quantities of highly speculative mining and oil stocks south of the border in defiance of American law? Why run the risk of angering officials in the United States and perhaps endangering access to capital markets there? The financial communit…
Ferranti-Packard
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 201 art. He is also among the first to pay attention to V-l and V-2 attacks against Belgium in 1944—45, which outnumbered those against Brit ain. Unfortunately, due to innumerable typographical errors, poor translations, and the irritating use of English measurements, even inside translated quotations, specialists may still need to consult the original work. But all in all, this new edition is a welcome additi…
Ferranti-Packard
Through their case-study of the evolution of a relatively small manufacturer such as Ferranti-Packard, Ball and Vardalas address a number of broader themes in the history of Canadian business and technology. Ferranti-Packard was British-owned and thus provides a revealing subject for the authors' investigation of the impact of foreign direct investment on Canadian industrial and technological capabilities. An important theme in this analysis is t…
Moose Pastures and Mergers
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada's leading securities regulator. Following the war, th…
Evan Friss. The Cycling City
Why did the U.S. undergo a sudden upsurge in cycling in the last five years of the nineteenth century? The production of bicycles, which had been only a few thousand a year up to 1893, suddenly began to shoot upward, reaching over 400,000 in 1895 and numbering nearly 1,200,000 by 1899 (34). One obvious answer was that the “pennyfarthing” cycle, with its pedals mounted directly on the hub of the large front wheel, which had been difficult to mount…
Imagining Uplands
Canadian Identity and History (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Canadian Policy and Governance (4 obras) · Economic history (4 obras)