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Metropolitan natures : environmental histories of Montreal

Title
Metropolitan natures : environmental histories of Montreal / edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 16-4729Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Castonguay, Stéphane.
  • Dagenais, Michèle, 1957-
Description
321 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
History of the urban environment
Uniform Title
History of the urban environment.
Subject
  • Urban ecology (Sociology) > Québec (Province) > Montréal
  • Human ecology > Québec (Province) > Montréal
  • Cities and towns > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Growth
  • Cities and towns > Growth
  • Ecology
  • Human ecology
  • Urban ecology (Sociology)
  • Montréal (Québec) > History
  • Montréal (Québec) > Environmental conditions
  • Québec > Montréal
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Colonial Landscapes of the Early Town / Colin M. Coates -- The Herons are Still Here: History and Place / Victoria Dickenson -- Corporeal Understandings of the Industrializing Environment / Nicolas Kenny -- Influenza and Urban Environment, 1918-1920 / Magda Fahrni -- Surface Water in the Early Nineteenth Century / Dany Fougères -- At the Source of a New Urbanity: Water Networks and Power Relations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Michèle Dagenais -- Hidden Water in the Landscape: The Covered Reservoirs of Mount Royal / Susan M. Ross -- The Political Ecology of Floods in the Late Nineteenth Century / Christopher G. Boone -- City Streets as Environmental Grid: The Challenge of Private Uses and Municipal Stewardship / Sherry Olson -- A City on the Move: The Surprising Consequences of Highways / Claire Poitras -- Agriculture on the Montreal Plain, 1850-1950 : Urban Market aned Metropolitan Hinterland / Stéphane Castonguay -- Horse, Hedges, and Hegemony : Foxhunting in the Countryside / Darcy Ingram -- When Bridges Become Barriers : Montreal and Kahnawake Mohawk Territory / Daniel Rueck -- The Destruction of the Rural Hinterland : Industrialization of Landscapes in Beauharnois County / Louis-Raphaël Pelletier -- Conclusion : The Historicity of Montreal's Environment / Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais.
Call Number
JFE 16-4729
ISBN
  • 9780822944027
  • 0822944022
LCCN
2011003485
OCLC
682895107
Title
Metropolitan natures : environmental histories of Montreal / edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais.
Publisher
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
History of the urban environment
History of the urban environment.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Castonguay, Stéphane.
Dagenais, Michèle, 1957-
Research Call Number
JFE 16-4729
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