| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert Lewis. Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xvii, 336. $45.00.

Robert Lewis sets out to challenge the dominant interpretation of urban historiography that posits that residential and industrial centralization was mainly a middle-class phenomenon, and that working-class suburbanization was relatively unimportant before the end of the 1930s. Lewis accomplishes this objective by chronicling the historical geography of Montreal's manufacturing districts between 1890 and 1929. Lewis argues that the city's manufacturing and working-class districts were constructed as a response by business elites to the needs of manufacturers to implement new economies of scale, new technologies of production, and new labor processes in new spaces. Case studies of several of the city's important industries illuminate the dynamics underlying the locational decisions of manufacturers. Lewis uncovers the inter-firm and inter-industry connections in the formation of manufacturing districts that laid the basis for the development of both central and suburban manufacturing districts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . .

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