Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole (Themes in Business and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1487525699 ISBN 13: 9781487525699

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2024

Synopsis

In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal’s Square Mile chronicles the history of the neighbourhood, from its origins to its decline, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family and home life, business and high politics, architecture and urban redevelopment, this interdisciplinary and richly illustrated volume presents a new account of the Square Mile’s history and an investigation of the neighbourhood’s impact beyond the immediate urban environment.

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About the Author

Dimitry Anastakis is Professor and L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the University of Toronto in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management, where he teaches about business, the state and politics, globalization, and automobility. He has published twelve books and edited collections, including five books on aspects of the Canadian auto industry in North America including Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity. Elizabeth Kirkland is a faculty member in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College.
Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society / McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487525699
• ISBN 13: 9781487525699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Anastakis Dimitry, Kirkland Elizabeth, Nerbas Don