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Reclaiming the Don - Jennifer L. Bonnell

Reclaiming the Don

An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley, Second Edition
Buch | Softcover
332 Seiten
2024 | 2nd edition
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-6040-9 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
Reclaiming the Don traces the history of the Don River Valley, from the establishment of the town of York to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway and beyond.
A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between river, valley, and city from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s. Demonstrating how mosquito-ridden lowlands, frequent floods, and over-burdened municipal waterways shaped the city’s development, Reclaiming the Don illuminates the impact of the valley as a physical and conceptual place on Toronto’s development.

Bonnell explains how for more than two centuries the Don has served as a source of raw materials, a sink for wastes, and a place of refuge for people pushed to the edges of society. Exploring the interrelationship between urban residents and their natural environments, she shows how successive generations of Toronto residents have imagined the Don as an opportunity, a refuge, and an eyesore.

The second edition contains a new foreword commenting on the life of the book, and the river, in the ten years since the book was first published. Combining extensive research with in-depth analysis, Reclaiming the Don is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Toronto.

Jennifer L. Bonnell is an associate professor in the Department of History at York University.

Foreword
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Colonial River
2. Making an Industrial Margin
3. Taming a “Monster of Ingratitude”
4. Refuge and Subsistence in an Urban Borderland
5. Charles Sauriol and the Don Valley Conservation Movement
6. Metro Toronto and the Don Valley Parkway
7. Remembering the Don

Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-4875-6040-0 / 1487560400
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-6040-9 / 9781487560409
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