Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946

"Boothman spells out timely lessons for modern business that may be learned from the study of failure; providing a surgical study of the Abitibi company, the public policy objectives of Ontario's political leaders; and the relationship of Canadian legal institutions with modern corporate enterprises."

Honours and Awards Committee, OHS Fred Landon Award

"Corporate Cataclysm is an excellent, deeply researched, and thorough account of the rise, fall and ultimate restructuring of a Canadian behemoth, Abitibi Power & Paper. The reader has a front row seat in the author’s narrative account, as he traces historical events through three tumultuous decades in Canadian history with an historian’s eye for detail and a novelist’s literary flair."

Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba, Canadian Business History Association

"Bridging the fields of management, business-government relations, law, and finance, Corporate Cataclysm takes a ‘holistic approach’ and proceeds chronologically, making a significant contribution to knowledge by telling us a story that we have not heard before about the rise and fall of Canadian business history."

Matthew Bellamy, Department of History, Carleton University

"Thoroughly and impressively researched, Corporate Cataclysm provides a sweeping account of the internal economies of the Canadian pulp and paper industry throughout the first half of the twentieth century and makes an important contribution to the rapidly developing field of Canadian business history."

Keith Fleming, Department of History, Western University