Bibliography of Boston
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The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts, USA.:
Nonfiction
General
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- Beagle, Jonathan M.; Penn, Elan (2006). Boston: A Pictorial Celebration. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-1977-6.
- Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff (2002). The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-072-1.
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(help) - Bolino, August C. (2012). Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-3376-5.
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(help) - Brown, Robin; The Boston Globe (2009). Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub (1 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-5062-7.
- Christopher, Paul J. (2006). 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit. Encouragement Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-933766-01-0.
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(help) - Hantover, Jeffrey; King, Gilbert (2008). City in Time: Boston. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-3300-0.
- Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1994). Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-923-6.
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(help) - Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David; Turner, Amy, eds. (2001). Mapping Boston. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61173-2.
- O'Connell, James C. (2013). The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018753.
- O'Connor, Thomas H. (2000). Boston: A to Z. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00310-1.
- Price, Michael; Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0921-4.
- Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19494-5.
- Shand-Tucci, Douglass (1999). Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 (2 ed.). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-201-1.
- Vrabel, Jim; Bostonian Society (2004). When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-620-6.
- Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (2000). Boston: A Topographical History (3 ed.). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00268-5.
Bibliographies
- Henry Stevens (1866). "Boston". Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.
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- "Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, vol. 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440, hdl:2027/njp.32101065267914
- Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351
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Directories
Guides
- "Boston", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
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suggested) (help) - Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Boston: the Hub of the Universe", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Cambridge: Riverside Press
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- John Harris (1989), Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston, Chester: Globe Pequot Press, OL 2213403M
- Boston, New York: Fodor's, 1996, OL 24710817M
- "New England: Massachusetts: Boston", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
- Boston (2nd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 24751454M
- Morris, Jerry (2005). The Boston Globe Guide to Boston. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-3430-6.
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- Wechter, Eric B.; et al. (2009). Fodor's Boston 2009. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-0699-1.
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(help) - Vorhees, Mara (2009). Lonely Planet Boston City Guide (4 ed.). Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74179-178-5.
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(help) - Hull, Sarah (2011). The Rough Guide to Boston (6 ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4053-8247-2.
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History
List of works, arranged by author
- Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 (1992) online edition
- Blake, John B. Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Harvard UP, 1959).
- Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742 (1938) online edition
- Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955)
- Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010)
- Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (2009).
- Conzen, Michael P., and George King Lewis, eds. Boston: A geographical portrait (1976)
- Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford UP, 1994) online edition
- Eisinger, Peter K. "Ethnic political transition in Boston, 1884-1933: Some lessons for contemporary cities." Political Science Quarterly (1978): 217-239. in JSTOR
- Formisano, Ronald P., Constance K. Burns, eds. Boston, 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics (Greenwood Press, 1984) online edition, the standard political history
- Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation (1941)
- Jones, Howard Mumford; Jones, Bessie Zaban (1975). The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-47282-1.
- Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920 (2001) online edition
- McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy 1772-1864: The Last Federalist (Harvard UP, 1974)
- Miller, John C. Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda (1936)
- O'Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: A Political History (1995)
- O'Toole, James M. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944 (1992)
- Russell, Francis. A City in Terror--1919--: The Boston Police Strike (1975).
- Rutman, Darrett B. Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649 (U of North Carolina Press, 1965).
- Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell; Price, Michael, Boston's immigrants, 1840-1925, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2000
- Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1995). Boston: A Century of Progress. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738538761.
- Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, The Great Boston Fire of 1872, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 1997
- Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, Lost Boston, Pavilion Press, May 1, 2014. ISBN 978-1909815049
- Simons, D. Brenton (2008). Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-58465-740-8.
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston, Common-Place, American Antiquarian Society, v.3, n.4, July 2003
- Vale, Lawrence J., "From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press, 2000).
- Vanderwarker, Peter (1982). Boston Then and Now. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-24312-2.
- Warden, Gerard B. Boston, 1689-1776 (1970), the standard history for the period
- Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (2nd ed. 1978)
- Waters, John J. The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts (1968)
- Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History, (2nd ed. Harvard UP, 1968), on geography and neighborhoods
List of works, arranged chronologically
Published in the 18th century
- Names of the Streets, Lanes & Alleys within the Town of Boston, Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1708, OCLC 511023684
- Thomas Pemberton (1794), Topographical and Historical Description of Boston
Published in the 19th century
- 1800s-1840s
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Boston", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
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- David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Boston". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
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- 1850s-1890s
- Josiah Quincy (1852), Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, OL 7063863M
- J. Willoughby Rosse (1858). "Boston". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/uva.x030807786 – via Hathi Trust.
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1868). "Boston". North American Review. 106 (218): 1–25. hdl:2027/chi.25854397. JSTOR 25108129.
- Justin Winsor, ed. (1880–1881), Memorial History of Boston, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, OCLC 4953409
- Edward H. Savage (1884), Boston Events, Boston: Tolman & White, printers, OL 7112253M
- Bacon, Edwin Munroe, and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
- South End House (1898), Robert A. Woods (ed.), The City Wilderness: a Settlement Study, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 849952
Published in the 20th century
- 1900s-1940s
- "Boston". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
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- Henry James (1906). "Boston". North American Review. 182 (592): 333–355. hdl:2027/chi.16251213. JSTOR 25105534.
- "Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822", Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, City of Boston, 1909
- A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, City of Boston, 1910, OL 14037282M
- Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder (ed.). New Encyclopedia of Social Reform. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 124–126.
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- Edwin Monroe Bacon (1916). Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Pilgrim Press.
- Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth; Stephen Elliott Kramer (1922). "Boston". Great Cities of the United States. Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company.
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- S. Foster Damon (1935). "The Genesis of Boston". The Atlantic. 156.
- Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1938 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- 1950s-1970s
- Kevin Lynch (1960), "Boston", Image of the City, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 16+, OL 5795447M
- Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (1964), Report on the existing industrial crisis in the city of Boston, OL 24149173M
- Walter Muir Whitehill (1964), Boston: Portrait of a City, Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, OL 5912910M
- Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
- Martin Green (1966). Problem of Boston. W.W. Norton & Company. OCLC 1016725.
- Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
- George F. Weston (1967), Boston ways: high, by, and folk, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 16413538M
- Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, ed. (1969), Nineteenth-Century Cities, Yale Studies of the City, Yale University Press, OL 5440390M (includes essays about Boston)
- Carl Seaburg (1971), Boston Observed, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 4769638M
- Boston Redevelopment Authority (1972), City of Boston: current problems and issues, OL 24621988M
- Darrett B. Rutman (1973), "Boston: 'A Citty upon a Hill'", in Alexander B. Callow (ed.), American Urban History (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, OL 5307653M
- Stephan Thernstrom (1973), The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674644953
- Howard Mumford Jones; Bessie Zaban Jones (1975). Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-47282-1.
- Douglass Shand-Tucci (1978), Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950, New York Graphic Society, OL 24751516M
- 1980s-1990s
- Jane Holtz Kay (1980), Lost Boston, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0395276099
- Allan Pred (1980), "Boston's City-System Interdependencies", Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840–1860, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, pp. 65–83
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- Peter Vanderwarker (1982), Boston Then and Now: 59 Boston sites photographed in the past and present, New York: Dover Publications, OL 4271212M
- "City with a Ticking Time Bomb", Financial Times, London, March 6, 1984
- Lawrence W. Kennedy (1992), Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, OL 1562221M
- Robert Campbell; Peter Vanderwarker (1992), Cityscapes of Boston: an American City Through Time, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., OL 1562103M
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Boston", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- Susan Wilson (1994), Boston Sites & Insights, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 1421334M
- Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (1995), Boston, Dover, N.H.: Arcadia, OL 1028399M
- Lawrence W. Kennedy (1998). "Boston, Massachusetts". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780874368468 – via Credo Reference. (subscription required)
Published in the 21st century
- Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
- Walter Muir Whitehill (2000), Boston: a Topographical History (3rd ed.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, OL 58903M
- Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Boston". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
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- Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
- Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262194945.
- David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Boston". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.
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- David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1576070277
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- American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.
- "Boston's income divide largest in US", Boston Globe, January 15, 2016[1]
- "Better use of data could make cities more efficient—and more democratic", The Economist, March 26, 2016
Fiction
See also
External links
- Boston Redevelopment Authority. "Research Publications". City of Boston. Archived from the original on 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- Catalogs
- Boston Public Library. Online catalog: subject:(boston)
- Bostonian Society. Online Catalog
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Boston, various dates
- Europeana. Items related to Boston, Massachusetts, various dates.
- Massachusetts Historical Society. Online library catalog
- Worldcat. su:Boston (Mass.)