Author: Boston (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Inaugural Addresses of the Mayor of Boston
The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston
Author: The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston: 1822-1851
Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Address of ... Mayor of Boston, to the City Council
Author: Boston (Mass.) MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Author: Sarah S. ElkindPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Combining insights from urban, western, and environmental history, Elkind examines the ways that people's reactions to their natural surroundings drive both demand for improved public services and political reform. She traces public works development in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to explain how these programs united each city with its suburban neighbors, creating new political entities and allowing Boston and Oakland to appropriate rural resources and thus overcome the environmental limits to their continued growth and prosperity. She also shows how, when the power of regionalism is turned to urban development, environmental and social costs are sometimes overlooked.
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 Water, City Life
Author: Carl SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602265X
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.
Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822
Author: John Ballard BlakePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674722507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town of Boston. A significant part of this study is the insight it offers into early attitudes toward disease and death as well as other basic political, social, and economic questions.
Ties That Bind
Author: Charles JacobsonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822970554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In the early days of utility development, municipalities sought to shape the new systems in a variety of ways even as private firms struggled to retain control and fend off competition. In scope and consequence, some of the battles dwarfed the contemporary one between local jurisdictions and cable companies over broadband access to the Internet. In this comparative historical study, Jacobson draws upon economic theory to shed light on relationships between technology, market forces, and problems of governance that have arisen in connection with different utility networks over the past two hundred years. He focuses on water, electric, and cable television utility networks and on experiences in four major American cities -- Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, arguing that information and transactions costs have played decisive roles in determining how different ownership and regulatory arrangements have functioned in different situations.Using primary sources and bold conceptualizations, Jacobson begins his study by examining the creation of centralized water systems in the first half of the nineteenth century, moves to the building of electric utilities from the 1880s to the 1980s, and concludes with an analysis of cable television franchising from the 1960s to the 1980s. Ties That Bind addresses highly practical questions of how to make ownership, regulatory, and contracting arrangements work better and also explores broader concerns about private monopoly and the role of government in society.