Steel City : : Hamilton and Region /

Steel City : : Hamilton and Region / / ed. by M.J. Dear, J.J. Drake, L.G. Reeds.

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From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is pre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, W. P.,
Bunting, Brian T.,
Burghardt, A. F.,
Dear, M. J.,
Dear, Michael J.,
Drake, J. J.,
Fincher, Ruth,
Gentilcore, R. Louis,
King, L. J.,
Lonergan, Stephen C.,
MacDonald, G. M.,
McCann, S. B.,
Ozornoy, G.,
Peace, W. G.,
Reeds, L. G.,
Rouse, W. R.,
Taylor, S. M.,
Webber, Michael,
Woo, Ming-Ko,
Wood, Harold A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Dear, M.J.,
Drake, J.J.,
Reeds, L.G.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©1987
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Foreword
  • Avant-propos
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Hamilton: region in transition
  • Part One. The Natural Environment
  • Chapter 2. Physical landscape of the Hamilton region
  • Chapter 3. Climate, weather, and society
  • Chapter 4. Soils of the Hamilton region: profiles, properties, and problems
  • Chapter 5. Forests of the Hamilton region: past, present, and future
  • Chapter 6. Hydrology of Beverly Swamp
  • Part Two. The Built Environment
  • Chapter 7. The beginnings: Hamilton in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 8. Emergence of the modern city: Hamilton, 1891–1950
  • Chapter 9. Social change in Hamilton, 1961–1981
  • Chapter 10. The move from county to region
  • Part 3. How Hamilton Works
  • Chapter 11. Farming in an urban age
  • Chapter 12. Social welfare in the city
  • Chapter 13. The changing competitive position of the Hamilton steel industry
  • Chapter 14. Energy flows and the city of Hamilton
  • Chapter 15. Urban policy in Hamilton in the 1980s
  • Chapter 16. McMaster University in a changing urban environment
  • Chapter 17. Hamilton today
  • Index

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