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Books and E-books on Boston
Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces
by
Hugh Howard
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780802159236
Publication Date: 2022
Boston's Cycling Craze, 1880-1900: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
by
Lorenz J. Finison
Call Number: WIT Stacks: 796.6 .F56 2014
ISBN: 9781625340733
Publication Date: 2014
Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
by
Robert J. Allison (Foreword by); Joseph M. Bagley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1684580390
Publication Date: 2021
Boston's Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance: Cultural Change on Two Wheels
by
Lorenz J. Finison
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1625344104
Publication Date: 2019
Boston: A Topographical History
by
Walter Muir Whitehill; Lawrence W. Kennedy
Call Number: 974.46 .W592 2000
ISBN: 0674002687
Publication Date: 1968
Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant
by
Roger Reed
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 155849555X
Publication Date: 2006
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
by
Mark Peterson
Call Number: 974.461 .P48 2019
ISBN: 0691209170
Publication Date: 2020
City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture
by
Justin T. Clark
Call Number: 307.121609744 .C53 2018
ISBN: 1469638738
Publication Date: 2018
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
by
Stephen Puleo
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807050431
Publication Date: 2010
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by
Stephen Puleo
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807050202
Publication Date: 2003
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
by
Michael Rawson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 067441683X
Publication Date: 2014
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
by
Mark Pasnik; Chris Grimley; Michael Kubo
Call Number: 720.974461 .H46 2015
ISBN: 1580934242
Publication Date: 2015
A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts
by
Joseph M. Bagley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1611687829
Publication Date: 2016
The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth
by
James C. O'Connell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262018756
Publication Date: 2013
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston
by
John Hanson Mitchell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 080707148X
Publication Date: 2008
A People's History of the New Boston
by
Jim Vrabel
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1625340761
Publication Date: 2014
People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
by
Karilyn Crockett
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1625342977
Publication Date: 2018
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