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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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Description

321 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

History of the urban environment

Uniform Title

History of the urban environment.

Subjects

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

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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