Built in Boston
Author: Douglass Shand Tucci
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780821207413
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Author: Douglass Shand Tucci
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780821207413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-04-20
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0262350211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1611685648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulent war years on the city's civilian population. His captivating narrative follows the experiences of four distinctive and significant groups of people who formed antebellum BostonÑbusinessmen, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, and women. Interweaving vivid portraits of the Boston community with major political and military events of the Civil War, O'Connor relates how the war forever changed lives, disrupted homes, altered work habits, reshaped political allegiances, and transformed ideas. Rich with colorful anecdotes about local figures, both renowned and long-forgotten, this is a fascinating account that will appeal to Civil War buffs, historians, and general readers alike.
Author: Tamra B. Orr
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 1637414641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where Boston is now located, the history of the Boston marathon, the Algonquin tribe, the fight for independence, catastrophes that happened within the city, the more recent "Big Dig," the timeless architecture and the arts. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Boston, chronology of events in Boston spanning 1614 to today, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and the city.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-06-12
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 3382805413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Justin Winsor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-30
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 3385442826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author: Jacob M. Price
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1040250750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe external economy of British North America has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob Price, make important contributions to quantification, conceptualisation and debate. Studies presenting and analysing new statistical material from the English and Scottish customs accounts are supplemented by a general survey of the transatlantic economy in the 18th century which is required reading for all students of the subject. Price's treatment is diversified into financial arrangements and the role of credit in the slave trade and plantation economies. In a provocative chapter "Who cared about the colonies?", concern in Britain for the 13 colonies between 1714 and 1775 is explored in terms of the ability of the colonies to involve the interests and command the attention and concern of people in Britain from the politically eminent to those in trade and to the nation at large.
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1836
Total Pages: 684
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Nevins
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0520294521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--