Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752510161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Eden on the Charles
Author: Michael RawsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.
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Author: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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