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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.
- 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 environmentHistory of the urban environment.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Castonguay, Stéphane.Dagenais, Michèle, 1957-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4729