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Book Synopsis Gaining Ground by : Nancy S. Seasholes
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why 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.
Book Synopsis The Massachusetts Story by : Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Download or read book The Massachusetts Story written by Gibbs Smith, Publisher and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of Massachusetts by : Edward Everett Hale
Download or read book The Story of Massachusetts written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Massachusetts, from the First Settlement Thereof in 1628, Until the Year 1750 by : Thomas Hutchinson
Download or read book The History of Massachusetts, from the First Settlement Thereof in 1628, Until the Year 1750 written by Thomas Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City on a Hill by : Abram C. Van Engen
Download or read book City on a Hill written by Abram C. Van Engen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.
Book Synopsis Three Episodes of Massachusetts History by : Charles Francis Adams
Download or read book Three Episodes of Massachusetts History written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Massachusetts by : John Stetson Barry
Download or read book The History of Massachusetts written by John Stetson Barry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undying Glory written by Clinton Cox and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of the "Glory" regiment of Massuchusetts, black men who risked their lives for the Union cause. d.0:
Book Synopsis The History of Massachusetts ...: The colonial period [to 1692 by : John Stetson Barry
Download or read book The History of Massachusetts ...: The colonial period [to 1692 written by John Stetson Barry and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hidden History of Massachusetts by : Tingba Apidta
Download or read book The Hidden History of Massachusetts written by Tingba Apidta and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Episodes of Massachusetts History by : Charles Francis Adams
Download or read book Three Episodes of Massachusetts History written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Boston Massacre by : Serena Zabin
Download or read book The Boston Massacre written by Serena Zabin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing people in all their complexity. Serena Zabin’s rich and highly enjoyable book does just that.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution. The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. And she reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who accompanied these armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs, and sharing baptisms. Becoming, in other words, neighbors. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human, now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution. Serena Zabin’s The Boston Massacre delivers an indelible new slant on iconic American Revolutionary history.
Book Synopsis The History of Massachusetts: The provincial period [1692-1775 by : John Stetson Barry
Download or read book The History of Massachusetts: The provincial period [1692-1775 written by John Stetson Barry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biographical History of Massachusetts by : Samuel Atkins Eliot
Download or read book Biographical History of Massachusetts written by Samuel Atkins Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History by : Charles Francis Adams
Download or read book Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to The History of Massachusetts by : Martin Kaufman
Download or read book A Guide to The History of Massachusetts written by Martin Kaufman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is designed as a general reference tool for the study of the history of Massachusetts. The only book of its type, the volume focuses largely on local history, emphasizing the new social history, and containing biographies of leading figures. Since Massachusetts history and U.S. history largely intertwined during the colonial and early national period, the book provides information on trends in early American history, and provides scholars and other interested readers with an up-to-date summary of major works and important interpretations of each period and of relevant themes, such as urban history, women in history, and oral history.
Book Synopsis History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 by : William Bradford
Download or read book History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
