Dr. Don Nerbas
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Email: donald.nerbas@mcgill.ca
Don Nerbas is Associate Professor and the St. Andrew鈥檚 Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, and a McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Research Fellow. He is also a member of the Montreal History Group / Groupe d鈥檋istoire de Montr茅al. His current book project examines the rise of the Cape Breton coal industry. Situating Cape Breton鈥檚 Sydney coalfield within the entangled histories of colonialism and industrialism, the project seeks to reconstruct the nineteenth-century history of Cape Breton coal and to provide new perspective on the origins and character of industrial capitalism in the Maritime region and Canada. This project emerges from Don鈥檚 past work on the region鈥檚 history and his interest in the history of capitalism. Recent publications include 鈥淪cots, Capitalism, and the Colonial Countryside: Impressions from Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton,鈥� History Compass 18, 11 (November 2020) and 鈥淓mpire, Colonial Enterprise, and Speculation: Cape Breton鈥檚 Coal Boom of the 1860s,鈥� Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 46, 6 (2018). 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).