Forging a consensus : historical essays on Toronto /

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In this collection of essays, published to mark the sesquicentennial, a number of historians, geographers, and political scientists analyse the history of the relationship between the corporation of the city of Toronto and the city that it administers.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Toronto (Ont.). Sesquicentennial Board
Other Authors: Russell, Victor Loring
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Toronto Sesquicentennial Board by University of Toronto Press, ©1984.
Series:Heritage.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Canada > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Toronto (Ont.) > History.
Toronto (Ont.) > Histoire.
Ontario > Toronto
Ontario > Toronto, to 1983
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Preface/VICTOR L. RUSSELL; PART ONE: Forging the consensus; A struggle for authority/PAUL ROMNEY; Orangemen and the Corporation/GREGORY S. KEALEY; Captain Bob and the Noble Ward/BARRIE DYSTER; Serving Toronto the Good/NICHOLAS ROGERS; The first hurrah/J.M.S. CARELESS; PART TWO: The triumph of consensus; Servicing the modern city 1900-30/ROGER E. RIENDEAU; The evolution of the board of control/PATRICIA PETERSEN; The rise of civic populism in Toronto 1870-1920/CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG and H.V. NELLES; A triumph for public ownership/FRANCES FRISKEN
  • Building for city, region, and nation/GUNTER GAD and DERYCK HOLDSWORTHPART THREE: The city that works; Toronto among North American cities/JAMES LEMON

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