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Building Landscape Narratives: the Material and Visual Culture of Bridge Construction in Montreal, 1854-1930.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Building Landscape Narratives: the Material and Visual Culture of Bridge Construction in Montreal, 1854-1930./
作者:	Braiden, Heather.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	305 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-10A.
標題:	Geography. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29043280
ISBN:	9798209933199

Building Landscape Narratives: the Material and Visual Culture of Bridge Construction in Montreal, 1854-1930.
Braiden, Heather.

Building Landscape Narratives: the Material and Visual Culture of Bridge Construction in Montreal, 1854-1930. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 305 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This is a study of the cultural landscape of Montreal, Canada, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as interpreted from the material and visual culture of bridge construction. The three bridges under study are the Victoria Bridge (constructed 1854-1860), the Saint-Laurent Bridge (constructed 1886-1887), and the Jacques Cartier Bridge (constructed 1926-1930) that cross over the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. At the time they were built, all were regarded as essential for the development of the city and country. Each was the most technically advanced of its kind and brought new material and construction methods to Montreal and Canada. As evidence of the importance of these structures, engineers, bridge manufacturing companies, and promoters produced generous construction records, each record offering a similar yet different perspective on the project.This research brings a new understanding of bridge architecture in Montreal by connecting a wide variety of construction records and reading them against one another. The study synthesizes and contrasts technical literature, such as construction reports, with visual material, like souvenir books and personalized albums, to show the ways in which both types of sources construct and reproduce their histories. At times, these histories overlap by centring on the perspective of the engineer, and at other times they reveal discrepancies, for example, around the work of Indigenous populations. The intertextual approach to reading the texts and examining the visual imagery demonstrates the ways in which different sources control different narratives and views of the construction projects. The sources reveal the interconnectedness of Montreal bridge builders and how the construction site was a space for social interactions. The study exposes the spatial, temporal, and ecological characteristics of bridge construction in an exceptional cultural landscape along the St. Lawrence River during the period 1854-1930.

ISBN: 9798209933199Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Building Landscape Narratives: the Material and Visual Culture of Bridge Construction in Montreal, 1854-1930.
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