A Conjunction of Interests : : Business, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879 / / J.B.B. Forster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Forster, J.B.B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The advent of the National Policy in 1879 brought dramatic changes in the structure, magnitude, and objectives of Canada's tariff policy. No longer used primarily as a source of revenue for the government, tariffs on imported goods assumed a role as protector of Canadian industry against the en...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Protection in an era of colonial transition, 1825–1854
• 2. Continuity and change: Making tariffs in the late 1850s
• 3. Larger markets, 1860-1866: Reciprocity and Confederation
• 4. From a conciliatory to a national policy, 1867–1872
• 5. The obscurity of private enterprise’: Business and the economy, 1870–1879
• 6. ‘An age of combination and association’, 1870–1879
• 7. The Liberal interregnum, 1874–1876
• 8. The Liberal interregnum, 1876–1878
• 9. The interests, the parties, and the election of 1878
• 10. ‘Reconciling a legion of conflicting interests’
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index