Metropolitan natures: environmental histories of Montreal
In: History of the urban environment
In: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Lists of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais -- Representations: Urban Cultures -- 1. The Colonial Landscapes of the Early Town | Colin M. Coates -- 2. The Herons Are Still Here: History and Place | Victoria Dickenson -- 3. Corporeal Understandings of the Industrializing Environment | Nicolas Kenny -- 4. Influenza and the Urban Environment, 1918-1920 | Magda Fahrni -- Infrastructures: Socio-Technical Systems -- 5. Surface Water in the Early Nineteenth Century | Dany Fougères -- 6. At the Source of a New Urbanity: Water Networks and Power Relations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century | Michèle Dagenais -- 7. Hidden Water in the Landscape: The Covered Reservoirs of Mount Royal | Susan M. Ross -- 8. The Political Ecology of Floods in the Late Nineteenth Century | Christopher G. Boone -- 9. City Streets as Environmental Grid: The Challenge of Private Uses and Municipal Stewardship | Sherry Olson -- 10. A City on the Move: The Surprising Consequences of Highways | Claire Poitras -- Hinterlands: City-Country Relationships -- 11. Agriculture on the Montreal Plain, 1850-1950: Urban Market and Metropolitan Hinterland | Stéphane Castonguay -- 12. Horses, Hedges, and Hegemony: Foxhunting in the Countryside | Darcy Ingram -- 13. When Bridges Become Barriers: Montreal and Kahnawake Mohawk Territory | Daniel Rueck -- 14. 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 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
In: History of the urban environment
In: History of the urban environment
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