Main entry:

Lewis, Robert D., 1954-

Title & Author:

Manufacturing Montreal : the making of an industrial landscape, 1850 to 1930 / Robert Lewis.

Publication:

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xvii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Living Tendrils" North American Urban Manufacturing Districts -- Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1850 to 1890 -- "Marvellous Rapidity" Montreal's Industrial Expansion -- "One Vast Block" The Making of the Central Manufacturing Districts -- "Factories and Industrial Establishments of Various Kinds" in the Eastern Manufacturing Districts -- "The Whirr of Machinery and the Booming Noise of a Thousand Hammers" in the Western Manufacturing Districts -- Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1890 to 1929 -- "One of the Most Magnificent Cities" Montreal's Economy, Planning, and Housing, 1890 to 1929 -- "Pierced by Another Giant Skyscraper" The Changing Fortunes of the Central Manufacturing Districts -- "Busy Hives of Industry" of the East and North Ends -- "Expanded in All Directions" The Western Manufacturing Districts -- Conclusion: Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1850 to 1929.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"In Manufacturing Montreal Robert Lewis provides a detailed historical geographic account of a major North American city's industrial landscape from the beginnings of industrialization to the Great Depression. Challenging the traditional view that urban expansion due to industrial decentralization is a twentieth-century phenomenon, Lewis demonstrates that the process of industrial decentralization has been ongoing since the 1850s."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

080186349X (hc ; alk. paper)
9780801863493 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Industries Québec (Province) Montréal.
Manufacturing industries Québec (Province) Montréal.
Industrial productivity Québec (Province) Montréal.
Industrie Québec (Province) Montréal.
Industrie manufacturière Québec (Province) Montréal.
Productivité Québec (Province) Montréal.
Economic history.
Industrial productivity.
Industries.
Manufacturing industries.
Industrialisatie.
Decentralisatie.
Stedelijke randzones.
Montréal (Québec) Economic conditions.
Montréal (Québec) Conditions économiques
Québec Montréal.

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 212538
Call No.: NA6403.C2 L4 2000
Status: Available