Title & Author:

Metropolitan natures : environmental histories of Montreal / edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.

Description:

321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

History of the urban environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780822944027 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822944022 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology) Québec (Province) Montréal.
Human ecology Québec (Province) Montréal.
Cities and towns Québec (Province) Montréal Growth.
Écologie urbaine Québec (Province) Montréal.
Écologie humaine Québec (Province) Montréal.
Villes Québec (Province) Montréal Croissance.
Cities and towns Growth.
Ecology.
Human ecology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Montréal (Québec) History.
Montréal (Québec) Environmental conditions.
Québec Montréal.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Castonguay, Stéphane.
Dagenais, Michèle, 1957-
Boone, Christopher G., 1964-
Coates, Colin MacMillan, 1960-
Dickenson, Victoria
Fahrni, Magdalena, 1970-
Fougères, Dany, 1963-
Ingram, Darcy
Kenny, Nicolas, 1977-
Olson, Sherry H.
Pelletier, Louis-Raphaël, 1972-
Poitras, Claire, 1965-
Ross, Susan M. (Susan Martha), 1963-
Rueck, Daniel
History of the urban environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 273600
Call No.: HT243.C32 M6 2011
Status: External loan