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Taking to the streets : crowds, politics, and the urban experience in mid-ninteenth-century Montreal /
"The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the political process were changing, p...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies on the history of Quebec ;
38. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- TAKING to the STREETS
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION The Crowd as an Historical Actor and a Lived Experience
- CHAPTER 1 A City on the Brink: Making Sense of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal
- CHAPTER 2 The Raucous Street Meets the Reformer's Gaze
- CHAPTER 3 Custom, Tumult, and Modernity on the Urban Fringe: The Lachine Canal Strike of 1843
- CHAPTER 4 "A voluntary power": Making Liberal Politics on the Streets of Montreal
- CHAPTER 5 Cacophony and Awe: Popular Piety and Public Order in an Age of Sectarian Conflict
- CHAPTER 6 "A picture of awful and thrilling beauty": Rethinking Popular Politics and Authority in the Midst of the Rebellion Losses Crisis of 1849
- CONCLUSION On the Streets and Looking Forward as a Turbulent Decade Draws to a Close
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX