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Author Olson, Sherry H

Title Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900 / Sherry Olson and Patricia A. Thornton
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 524 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait, digital file
Series Carleton Library series ; 222
Carleton library ; 222.
Contents 1. Trajectories -- 2. Tracking a Population -- 3. The Drawing Power of the City -- 4. The Hazards of City Living -- 5. The Pace of Family Formation -- 6. The Marriage Partnership in Context -- 7. Emerging Opportunities in the Urban Economy -- 8. Facing Risk: The Elastic Household -- 9. A Geography of Encounter -- 10. City Folks in Their Rural Contexts -- 11. The Social Emotions and the Social Fabric -- 12. Toward a Dynamic of Cultural Coexistence
Summary A lively reconstruction of life in a booming North American city
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject City and town life -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 19th century
Immigrant families -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 19th century
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Assimilation (Sociology)
City and town life
Ethnic relations
Immigrant families
Manners and customs
Einwanderer.
Bevölkerung.
SUBJECT Montréal (Québec) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Montréal (Québec) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject Québec -- Montréal
Montreal.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Thornton, Patricia A
LC no. 2011410248
ISBN 9780773586000
0773586008
9780773538306
0773538305
9780773538313
0773538313