Author: Benjamin SEAVERPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Inaugural Address to the Aldermen and Common Council, by Benjamin Seaver, Mayor of the City of Boston, January, 1852
Inaugural Addresses of the Mayor of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.)Address of ... Mayor of Boston, to the City Council
Author: Boston (Mass.) MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Index to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Document
Author: Boston (Mass.)City Water, City Life
Author: Carl SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Creating the Boston Police
Author: Timothy B. RiordanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646996
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults. When Francis Tukey became City Marshal in 1846, he faced off against some of the most notorious criminals of the time. Under Tukey's leadership, the police were known for their coordinated "descents" on gamblers, rumrunners and prostitutes. This book aims to recount the story of the formation of the Boston Police Department, featuring many of the department's earliest cases and crises. Significant tales include the conflict following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, when Tukey and his officers avoided enforcing the law, even helping enslaved people further escape. Also covered are the department's dealings with Irish refugees and the Cholera epidemic of 1849.
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description