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Urban History Review articles from September 2006
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Urban History Review archives from September 2006
Understanding the built form of industrialization along the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
September 22, 2006... Abstract
This article tracks the morphogenesis of one of the birthplaces of Canadian industry: the Lachine Canal corridor in Montreal. The authors propose a reading of the evolution of the artifacts and spatial forms to be found along the...
From summer cottage colony to metropolitan suburb: Toronto's Beach district, 1889-1929.
September 22, 2006... Abstract
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as "The Beach" was transformed from a summer second-home setting into a metropolitan suburb dominated by the middle classes (occupationally...
A regional Perspective on Canadian suburbanization: reflections on Richard Harris's Creeping Conformity.
September 22, 2006... Abstract
Richard Harris's recently published Creeping Conformity offers a carefully reasoned interpretation of the country's evolving suburban landscape from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In particular, Harris argues...
How East New York Became a Ghetto.
September 22, 2006... Thabit, Walter. How East New York Became a Ghetto. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 304, maps, notes, index.
Inner-city communities across the United States have experienced devastating decline over the past half-century....
Entre empire et nation: Les representations de la ville de Quebec et de ses environs, 1760-1833.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Parent, Alain. Entre empire et nation : Les representations de la ville de Quebec et de ses environs, 1760-1833. Quebec : Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2005. Pp. xx, 272. Illustrations, tableaux, bibliographie.
Issu d'une these...
The Professionalization of History in English Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Wright, Donald. The Professionalization of History in English Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp x, 270, index $45.00 (hardcover).
In this book, Donald Wright examines the professionalization of history in English...
The Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Wong, John Chi-Kit. The Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp viii, 235, index, illustrations. $32.95 (paper).
This well-researched and clearly written...
A Brief History of Gay: Canada's First Gay Tabloid, 1964-1966.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... McLeod, Donald W. A Brief History of Gay: Canada's First Gay Tabloid, 1964-1966 Toronto: Homewood Books, 2003. Pp 96, index, illustrations.
Donald McLeod, a Toronto research librarian, is one of the pioneering activists working in the area...
Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Beauregard, Robert, Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities (New York: Routledge, 2003), revised edition.
Bob Beauregard's Voices of Decline joins a long list of books that deal with the American postwar urban crisis. While...
The Workers' Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Heron, Craig, and Steve Penfold. The Workers' Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 340, illustrations, index. $39.95 (paper).
In The Workers' Festival: A History of Labour Day...
A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Gidney, Catherine. A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. Pp. 272, $70.00 (hardcover).
In 1967, University of Toronto's third teach-in,...
Au-dela des frontieres: L'architecture des ambassades canadiennes 1930-2005.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Therrien, Marie-Josee. Au-dela des frontieres: L'architecture des ambassades canadiennes 1930-2005. Quebec: Les Presses de I'Universite Laval, 2005. Pp. xi, 231. Illustrations, glossaire, bibliographie.
Peu etudie, le sujet du livre est a...
Patrimonies modernes: L'architecture du vingtieme siecle a Chicoutimi.(Le combat du patrimoine a Montreal, 1973-2003)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Morisset, Lucie K., Luc Noppen, et Patrick Dieudonne. Patrimoines modernes: L'architecture du vingtieme siecle a Chicoutimi. Sainte-Foy, Presses de I'Universite du Quebec, 2004, 192 pages.
Drouin, Martin. Le combat du patrimoine a Montreal...
La vie culturelle a Montreal vers 1900.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cambron, Micheline, dir. La vie culturelle a Montreal vers 1900. Montreal, Fides et la Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec, 2005. Pp. 412.
Le collectif La vie culturelle a Montreal vers 1900, dirige par Micheline Cambron, contient des travaux...
Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass market in the Early Twentieth Century.
September 22, 2006... Jacobson, Lisa. Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century is...
The Once and Future Budapest.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Nemes, Robert. The Once and Future Budapest. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 247.
How did urbanism and nationalism intersect in nineteenth-century Budapest? Why did nationalism mobilize so many women and men, and...
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
In 1963, James Baldwin wrote that "the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an...
Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia and the Woodlands.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Forsyth, Ann. Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia and The Woodlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 370.
Urban sprawl. More than ever North Americans have become accustomed to seeing mass...