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Urban History Review articles from September 2007
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Urban History Review archives from September 2007
Les rapports riverains de la ville: Sherbrooke et ses usages des rivieres Magog et Saint-Francois, XIXe-XXe siecles.
September 22, 2007... Cet article analyse le travail continu de revision et de mise en oeuvre des rapports riverains de la ville de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke est situe aux confins de la Magog et de la Saint-Francois, qui toutes deux se posent a la fois comme frein et...
Development controls in Toronto in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2007... Histories of contemporary development control tend to situate its beginning in the first or second decade of the twentieth century, when modern zoning bylaws were adopted. Yet, as some researchers have pointed out, building and land-use...
Swatting flies for health: children and tuberculosis in early twentieth-century Montreal.
September 22, 2007... Responding to an appeal by city physicians and health reformers to destroy a prodigious disease carrier, the housefly, the Montreal Daily Star launched an island-wide contest in July 1912, offering prizes to children who collected the most dead...
Modernizers and traditionalists in postwar Hamilton, Ontario: the fate of a farmers' market, 1945-1965.(Hamilton Farmers' Market)
September 22, 2007... Between 1945 and 1965, the Hamilton Farmers' Market was hailed as both an irreplaceable cultural and historical gem, and condemned as an antiquated institution not worth the land it occupied. The market debates occurred in the midst of...
Les eglises du Quebec. Un patrimoine a reinventer.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Noppen, Luc, et Lucie K. Morisset. Les eglises du Quebec. Un patrimoine a reinventer. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005. Pp. xix, 434. Illustrations.
Les publications sur le patrimoine religieux au Quebec se sont...
Les escaliers publics en fer de la ville de Quebec. Entre fonctionnalite et representation (1880-1900).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bonenfant, Marie-Eve. Les escaliers publics en fer de la ville de Quebec. Entre fonctionnalite et representation (1880-1900). Quebec: Septentrion, 2006. Pp. 152. Illustration, bibliographie.
L'escalier Badelard fut longtemps mon prefere....
Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bradbury, Bettina, and Tamara Myers, eds., Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal. UBC Press, 2005. Illustrations, index. $29.95 (paper).
It is a pleasure to read a collection of essays that are not already dated by the...
Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Carstairs, Catherine, Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp viii, 241, bibliography, index. $24.95 (paper).
Illegal drug distribution and use in...
Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Durflinger, Serge, Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. Pp. 296. $29.95 (paper).
Fighting from Home is the product of meticulous research into the municipal workings and community spirit of...
Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe-fin XXe siecle).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marec, Yannick, dir. Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe-fin XXe siecle). Grane: editions Creaphis. Pp. 759.
Cet ouvrage dirige par Yannick Marec, eminent specialiste de l'histoire sociale...
In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Roberts, David, In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. Pp. 336, illustrations US$34.95 (cloth).
The automobile is an unmistakable fact of life in southern...
Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to the Great War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Rutherdale, Robert, Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to the Great War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 331, illustrations, index, bibliography. $29.95 (paper).
Military historians of the distant past possess the luxury of not...
Street Meeting.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Wild, Mark, Street Meeting. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Mark Wild offers an unusual case study of urban ethnicity. Rather than following the broader tendency to discuss a single ethnic group, Wild focuses attention on...