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Author: WalkBoston
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Published: 1999-04-01
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ISBN-13: 9780967083704
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Author: WalkBoston
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Published: 1999-04-01
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ISBN-13: 9780967083704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Mitchell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780807071496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow much does the current landscape of Boston, Massachusetts, resemble the place that Captain John Smith referred to in 1614 as "the Paradise of all these parts"? John Hanson Mitchell explores a variety of habitats as he ranges outward from the core of the peninsula where the Puritans first settled to the ancient rim of the Boston Basin, within which the modern city now lies. Endlessly readable and full of personality, The Paradise of All These Parts offers Boston visitors and residents alike a whole new perspective on one of America's oldest cities.
Author: Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006-09-18
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0262693399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring Boston's past and present: 12 walks that trace the creation of the city's man-made land in the central waterfront, Back Bay, South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere. At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats—areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land, historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way, uncovers fascinating and little-known pieces of Boston history. In the course of these walks—around the central waterfront, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere—she shows us how Boston's past is always just below the surface of its present. Each walk is accompanied by a map that shows the route and original shoreline. The walks are illustrated with historical maps, historical photographs and views, and current photographs. All walks are accessible by public transportation.
Author: John Kelly
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 080509184X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of "The Great Mortality."
Author: Robert Todd Felton
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1459608895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoston has a revolutionary history that has established the city as New England's cultural and historic capital. Here you can experience American history and fresh pasta in the North End, visit the shiny new waterfront and 50 - acre greenway post - Big Dig, or wander the cobblestone streets to Henry David Thoreau's house in Beacon Hill - and it's all conveniently within walking distance. This portable guide features detailed maps for each trip, original photos, and public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a Points of Interest'' section summarizes each walk's highlights. The 36 walks include trivia about architecture, local culture, and the city's rich history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop.
Author: Abha Suresh Kapadia
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 270
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Publisher: Leo Collins
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 199
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1009345303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. While Watch and Ward has long been dismissed as an early apprentice work, it marks an important stage in James's development as a fiction writer, building upon the stories he wrote during the late 1860s and pointing, at the same time, to the works he would write during the ensuing decade and which would secure his reputation, including 'Daisy Miller', The American and The Portrait of a Lady. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the novel's historical, cultural and literary references.
Author: Eve LaPlante
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-04-25
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0061926957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex." Written by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, American Jezebel brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting her not as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank—as some have portrayed her—but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies—making her the mid-wife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony. The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. American Jezebel illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era.
Author: Geoscience Information Society
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 652
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