Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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City Documents
Author: Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Eden on the Charles
Author: Michael RawsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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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.
The Boston Metropolitan District
Author: Caroline ShillaberPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Nature and the City
Author: Michael J. RawsonPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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History of Framingham, Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Howard TemplePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire
Author: Charles Henry BellPublisher:
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Category : Exeter (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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History of Barnstead [N.H.] from Its First Settlement in 1727 to 1872
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Author: Jeremiah Peabody JewettPublisher:
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Category : Barnstead (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Growth of Children
Author: BowditchThe History of Swanzey, New Hampshire, from 1734 to 1890
Author: Benjamin ReadPublisher:
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Category : Swanzey (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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