Opportunism and Goodwill: Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979

Stefano Tijerina

Published by University of Toronto Press 2021

Opportunism and Goodwill

Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979

Stefano Tijerina

In the series Themes in Canadian Business History

In the series Themes in Business and Society

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442666740

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About this book

Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.

Author / Editor information

Tijerina Stefano :

Stefano Tijerina is a lecturer in Management in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine.

Reviews

Rosana Barbosa, Saint Mary’s University :
“This book provides one more piece in the understanding of this important but still neglected topic.”

Anna Zalik, associate professor of environmental and urban change, York University:

"Stefano Tijerina’s crucial contribution offers a fascinating and nuanced account of Canadian and Colombian state-capital pacts under conditions of British-US rivalry in the Americas and the Caribbean. At the intersection of business history and critiques of imperialism, this book is essential reading for all concerned with the extractivist and imperialist record of Canada, Britain, and the United States – and the manoeuvres of the global banking and oil industries – in contemporary South America."

Todd Gordon, assistant professor of law and society, Wilfrid Laurier University:

"Stefano Tijerina's Opportunism and Goodwill offers an in-depth look at the historical development of Canada-Colombia foreign relations and the central role business interests played in this process."

Jasmin Hristov, assistant professor of sociology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan:

"This meticulously researched and thorough historical account of the relationship between Canada and Colombia offers much-needed insight into the tangled and mutually beneficial development pathways of Canadian and Colombian capital. Stefano Tijerina’s nuanced perspective of Canada’s promotional state demonstrates the ways the state has helped the Canadian private sector secure markets and access to Colombia’s natural resources under the image of a benevolent and anti-imperialist nation. The book’s empirically rich analysis also exposes the agency of the Colombian elites in this process as well as Canada’s relatively subordinate position within the world capitalist economy, which prevented channeling the profits towards Canada’s national economic development."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
THEMES IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY Dimitry Anastakis Publicly Available Download PDF	ii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
OPPORTUNISM AND GOODWILL
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: From Informality to Formality
1 The Jamaican Entrepôt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Joining the International System Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 Institutionalizing International Trade, 1867–1904 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Part Two: A Foothold in the Region
4 Colombia and the Emerging Latin American Market, 1904–1910 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5 Internationalizing Banking and Insurance, 1886–1939 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
6 Tropical Oil and the Andian National Corporation, 1918–1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
7 Canadian Gold Dredging Operations, 1909–1962 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Part Three: The Early Promotional State
8 Limitations under the Cold War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
9 Diplomatic Relations, 1941–1953 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
10 The 1953 Goodwill Trade Mission Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
11 The 1968 Ministerial Mission Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
12 Offcial Development Assistance to Colombia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Canadian-Colombian relations; Canada and Latin America; Canadian imperialism; business history; Canada and the Global South; economic development; multinational corporations; public-private partnerships

eBook

Published: March 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781442666740