Boston: A Topographical History - Softcover

Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (Professor Of History

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002687 ISBN 13: 9780674002685

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Whitehill Walter Muir Kennedy Lawrence W

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"["Boston: A Topographical History"] is a lively history of the city from its founding up through the mid-1960s, the age of the so-called New Boston. Whitehill clarifies such mysteries as the name Tremont, which refers to the three hills--Pemberton, Beacon, and Mount Vernon--that once stood where the now much-reduced Beacon Hill remains. With this book, graced with useful old maps and engravings, you can understand that Canal Street followed the bank of Mill Creek, Causeway Street was once a causeway across the old mill pond, and West Hill Place (near Charles Circle) was once a small hill by the Back Bay. -- David Mehegan "Boston Globe Magazine"

Reseña del editor:

This text covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0674002687
• ISBN 13: 9780674002685
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432