Manufacturing Montreal : the making of an industrial landscape, 1850 to 1930 /
"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 decentra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2000.
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 080186349X (hc : alk. paper) |