Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900 / Sherry Olson and Patricia A. Thornton.

Main entry:

Olson, Sherry H.

Title & Author:

Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900 / Sherry Olson and Patricia A. Thornton.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 524 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Carleton Library series ; 222

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-501) and indexes.
1. Trajectories -- 2. Tracking a Population -- 3. The Drawing Power of the City -- 4. The Hazards of City Living -- 5. The Pace of Family Formation -- 6. The Marriage Partnership in Context -- 7. Emerging Opportunities in the Urban Economy -- 8. Facing Risk: The Elastic Household -- 9. A Geography of Encounter -- 10. City Folks in Their Rural Contexts -- 11. The Social Emotions and the Social Fabric -- 12. Toward a Dynamic of Cultural Coexistence.

Summary:

"Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when people flooded into emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal, using information from a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780773538306 (bound)
0773538305 (bound)
9780773538313 (pbk.)
0773538313 (pbk.)

Subject:

City and town life Québec (Province) Montréal History 19th century.
Immigrant families Québec (Province) Montréal History 19th century.
Assimilation (Sociology) Québec (Province) Montréal History 19th century.
Vie urbaine Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 19e siècle.
Familles immigrantes Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 19e siècle.
Montréal (Québec) Relations interethniques Histoire 19e siècle.
Assimilation (Sociologie) Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 19e siècle.
Assimilation (Sociology)
City and town life.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrant families.
Manners and customs.
Einwanderer.
Bevölkerung.
Montréal (Québec) Ethnic relations History 19th century.
Montréal (Québec) Social life and customs 19th century.
Montréal (Québec) Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Québec Montréal.
Montreal.

Form/genre:

Statistics.
History.

Added entries:

Thornton, Patricia A.
Carleton library ; 222.

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 273601
Call No.: FC2947.9.A1 O4 2011
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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