Bryan D. Palmer
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From ![]() NEW! A Coming CapitalismThe Nineteenth-Century Transportation Revolution From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the transportation revolution in Canada in the nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Fateful Transition, 1870-90Big Industries, Big Banks From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the rise of big Industry and Banking in Canada in the late nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Nineteenth-Century War of ResistanceSettler "Unionists," "Half-Breeds," "Indians," and the Uprising in the North-West, 1885 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the Canadian Pacific Railway’s intrusion further west and the ensuing conflicts with Indigenous and Metis populations, Louis Riel’s Provisional Government and … | Bryan D. Palmer | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Acknowledgements, Preface, and Notes |
This chapter includes the author’s acknowledgements, a brief preface, and a note on how the book was conceptualized. By examining the history of Indigenous displacement and settler … | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2026 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Apostolic Apologetics: Vatican Statements and Indigenous Demands for Justice, 2020–23 |
In this chapter, Palmer discusses the Catholic church’s role in running Indigenous residential schools in Canada. He describes how school survivors sought formal apologies and financial … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Bricks (and Timber) in the Road to Capital Accumulation, 1795-1850From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter takes a look at capital accumulation in Canada in the early nineteenth century through the development of resources such as lumber and mining and its impact of Indigenous populations … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! British North America, the American Revolution, and LandFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter takes a look at British rule in North America in the late eighteenth century, Mi’kmaq treaty negotiations, the impact of the westward movement of the Fur Trade on Indigenous … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Canadian Capital’s Global Reach in the Twenty-First Century |
In this chapter, Palmer discusses how Canadian corporate capital invested in foreign countries, often in resource extraction and low-wage industries. He includes examples of Canadian mining … | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capital Accumulation and the Routinization of Crises, 1820-60From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter outlines the economic crises and depressions in early nineteenth century Canada and the effect of industry and labour. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capital CravingsColonialism's Sixteenth-Century Beginnings Planted From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the beginnings of capitalism and colonialism in Canada, and the effects of these developments on its Indigenous inhabitants. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capital, the State, and the 1960s Appetite for Reform: From Conciliation to Containment |
This chapter outlines Canadian political and economic history from 1945-1960s. Palmer describes how Liberal governments expanded welfare and the social safety net, and how labour unions expanded, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism Unchecked: After the 2025 Election |
In this chapter, Palmer outlines the key policies put in place by the Carney Liberals in 2025-26, including the turn away from labour, Indigenous communities and their rights, and environmental … | Bryan D. Palmer | 25 | 2026 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capitalism’s Changing Contours, 1960-2000: The Bursting of the Post-War Bubble |
This chapter covers Canada’s economic history from 1960 to 2000. Palmer describes how trade deals with the U.S. intensified economic integration, favouring foreign (often American) … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capitalist Confederated CanadaThe Emergence of Organized Labour and Class Conflict, 1870-90 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the tumult of the 1870s in Canada, including the Pacific Scandal of 1873, Indigenous resistance in the North-West and the global financial pandemic from 1873 to 1897, which … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 |
This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |






