Don Nerbas

Don Nerbas is Associate Professor and the St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. His research centres on the history of capitalism, especially the social, political, and cultural dimensions of capitalist political economies. He is the author of Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 (University of Toronto Press, 2013). His current book project examines the rise of the Cape Breton coal industry in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; it explores how Cape Breton’s Sydney coalfield became tied to and fuelled Montreal’s urban-industrial expansion within the context of an emerging national economy.