Titre et auteur:

Montreal's Square Mile : the making and transformation of a colonial metropole / edited by Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

x, 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frameworks and perspectives -- Constructing business networks and institutions -- Family, gender, and property -- Professional and business worlds in transformation -- Crisis and decline.
Introduction -- PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES -- 1. The High Ground: Mansions, Mythology, and the Mountain -- 2. Property and Power: Connecting the Dots -- PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING BUSINESS NETWORKS AND INSTITUTIONS -- 3. "Others of more enterprise": Thomas Morland and the Formation of Montreal Rolling Mills, 1858-1868 -- 4. "Dear Richard ... send us a few buffalo tongues": Donald Smith's Fur Trade Contacts and Personal Credit Networks -- PART THREE: FAMILY, GENDER, AND PROPERTY -- 5. Marriage, Property, and the Law in a Square Mile Family: The Case of Annie Stevenson Anderson vs. David Morrice, 1884-1885 -- 6. Searching for Intimacies beyond the Notman Photographs: The Case of Amy Redpath Roddick -- 7. Gender and Social Relations in the City above the Hill -- PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS WORLDS IN TRANSFORMATION -- 8. Max Aitken in Montreal: Financial Innovation and Creative Destruction in the Laurier Boom -- 9. "Glad of your help": Scottish Architects in Montreal, 1860-1940 -- 10. The Changing of the Guard: Bartlett McLennan, Roy Wolvin, and the Leveraged Buyout of the Montreal Transportation Company, 1903-1921 -- PART FIVE: CRISIS AND DECLINE -- 11. Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers' First World War Letters -- 12. The Death of the Golden Square Mile? Understanding the Transformation of an Urban District, 1945-1985 -- The 1920s: Beginning of the End -- Afterword
Issued also in electronic format.

Résumé:

"In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of fields of historical investigation, this collection tells the story of the Square Mile from its origins to its decline. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the history of the Square Mile and an investigation of its impact beyond the immediate urban environment."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781487525699 paperback
1487525699 paperback
9781487508050 hardcover
1487508050 hardcover
PDF
9781487537456
EPUB
9781487537463

Sujet:

Neighborhoods Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Quartiers (Urbanisme) Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Neighborhoods
Golden Square Mile (Montréal, Québec) History.
Montréal (Québec) History.
Mille carré doré (Montréal, Québec) Histoire.
Montréal (Québec) Histoire.
Québec Montréal

Classification/genre:

History

Vedettes secondaires:

Anastakis, Dimitry, 1970- editor.
Kirkland, Elizabeth, editor.
Nerbas, Don, 1980- editor.

Square Mile : the making and transformation of a colonial metropole

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room montreal 319822
Cote: FC2947.52 .M66 2024
Exemplaire: 1
Statut: Disponible