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"For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. From Petrolia to Turner Valley, Imperial was always … foreign-controlled multinationals in Canada. "Imperial Standard" is the first full-scale history of Imperial Oil. It … energy crises of the 1970s and 80s, Imperial was assailed as the embodiment of foreign control of Canada’s natural resources …
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This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments...
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"The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the...
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART ONE FOUNDATIONS 1860-1917 -- Origins -- When Empires Collide -- Resurrection -- PART TWO Before Leduc 1917-1947 -- Adventures in the Tropics -- Cogs in the Wheel -- The Winning of the West -- PART...
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