Guides and Reference
In Season: A Natural History of the New England Year
Nona Bell Estrin, Charles W. Johnson
ISBN-10: 158465127X (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781584651277 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2002
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Mapping Boston
Alex Krieger, David Cobb, editors
ISBN-13: 9780262112444 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262611732 (paper)
MIT Press, 2001
A Natural History of Boston's North Shore
Kristina Lindborg, Kristina Lindborg, illus.
ISBN-13: 9781584655787 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2007
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Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention that Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great
Lynda Morgenroth
ISBN-13: 9780807071342 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2006
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Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
Mary Melvin Petronella
ISBN-13: 9781555536053 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2004
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Walking Tours Of Boston's Made Land
Nancy S. Seasholes
ISBN-13: 9780262693394 (paper)
MIT Press, 2006
Massachusetts at a Glance: A User's Guide to the Bay State
Jack Tager
ISBN-13: 9781558494398 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558494404 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
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Bicycling on Boston’s North Shore
Roger Turner
ISBN-13: 9781584655282 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2007
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Colonies and Revolution
Post-Revolution History: GeneralThe Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston
John Hanson Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780807071496 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2009
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Boston's Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor
James O'Toole, David Quigley, editors
ISBN-13: 9781555535827 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2004
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Boston: A Topographical History, Third Edition
Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy
ISBN-13: 9780674002678 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2000
Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700–1850
Conrad E. Wright, Katheryn P. Viens
ISBN-13: 9780934909709 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780934909716 (paper)
University of Virginia Press, 2005
History: Colonies and RevolutionAs If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
Richard Archer
ISBN-13: 9780195382471 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
Benjamin L. Carp
ISBN-13: 9780300117059 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300178128 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2010
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Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Cornelia H. Dayton, Sharon V. Salinger
ISBN-13: 9780812245936 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780812206326
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall
Judith S. Graham
ISBN-13: 9781555535933 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2000
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Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780
Phyllis Whitman Hunter
ISBN-13: 9780801438554 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2001
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Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
M. Michelle Jarrett Morris
ISBN-13: 9780674066335 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2013
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History: Post-RevolutionActivists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago
Pierre Clavel
ISBN-13: 9780801449291 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801476556 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2010
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Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism and Social Reform in Boston, 1860–1910
Benjamin L. Hartley
ISBN-13: 9781584659280 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781584659297 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781584659419
University Press of New England, 2011
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A Corporal's Story: Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
George Kimball
ISBN-13: 9780806144801 (cloth)
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Peter R. Knights
ISBN-13: 9781469613772 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2013
Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Neil Miller
ISBN-13: 9780807051122 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807051115 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2010
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The Athens of America: Boston, 1825-1845
Thomas H. O’Connor
ISBN-13: 9781558495241 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558495180 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
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A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
Stephen Puleo
ISBN-13: 9780807001493 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2011
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Stephen Puleo
ISBN-13: 9780807050217 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2004
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A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike
Francis Russell
ISBN-13: 9780807050330 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2005
Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Nancy Lusignan Schultz
ISBN-13: 9781555535148 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2002
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A People's History of the New Boston
Jim Vrabel
ISBN-13: 9781625340764 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2014
Return to Top Urban Development Planning and Public Policy
Architecture Urban Development: Planning and Public PolicyStellwagen: The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary
Peter Borrelli
ISBN-13: 9781584657149 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781584658764
University Press of New England, 2009
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The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years, 1882–1890
Ethan Carr, Amanda Gagel, Michael Shapiro, editors
ISBN-13: 9781421409269 (cloth)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor-A Unique Environmental Success Story
Eric Jay Dolin
ISBN-13: 9781558494459 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558496415 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks
Sylvia Dominguez
ISBN-13: 9780814720776 (cloth)
New York University Press, 2010
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Mastering Boston Harbor: Courts, Dolphins, and Imperiled Waters
Charles M. Haar
ISBN-13: 9780674015289 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2005
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Inventing The Charles River
Karl Haglund
ISBN-13: 9780262083072 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2002
Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630
Lawrence W. Kennedy
ISBN-13: 9780870239236 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 1994
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Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts
Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, Roger G. Reed
ISBN-13: 9781558499768 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2013
Boston’s Back Bay: The Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
William Newman, Wilfred E. Holton
ISBN-13: 9781555536510 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781555536800 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2006
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The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth
James C. O’Connell
ISBN-13: 9780262018753 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2013
Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings
Anthony N. Penna, Conrad Edick Wright
ISBN-13: 9780822943815 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822963011 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
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Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
Michael Rawson
ISBN-13: 9780674048416 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780674416833 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 2010
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Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
Nancy S. Seasholes
ISBN-13: 9780262194945 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2003
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
Mario Luis Small
ISBN-13: 9780226762913 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226762920 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226762937
University of Chicago Press, 2004
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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
Carl Smith
ISBN-13: 9780226022512 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226151595 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226022659
University of Chicago Press, 2013
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Urban Development: ArchitectureThe Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation
David Grayson Allen
ISBN-13: 9781555536794 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2007
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Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh
Margaret Henderson Floyd
ISBN-13: 9780226254104 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, 1994
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Building Stata: The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT
Nancy Joyce
ISBN-13: 9780262101059 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262600613 (paper)
MIT Press, 2004
Lost Boston
Jane Holtz Kay
ISBN-13: 9781558495272 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
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Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
William J. Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780262134798 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262516112 (paper)
MIT Press, 2007
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston
Keith Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed
ISBN-13: 9780813927091 (cloth)
University of Virginia Press, 2009
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The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston
James F. O'Gorman
ISBN-13: 9781558494367 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
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Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant
Roger Reed
ISBN-13: 9781558495555 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
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Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape
Elihu Rubin
ISBN-13: 9780300170184 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2012
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Return to Top People and Society Neighborhoods
Ethnicity and Religion
Race and Civil Rights
Boston Feminism
Politics
Labor and Unions
Crime People and Society: NeighborhoodsAlways Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square
David Kruh
ISBN-13: 9781555534103 (paper)
University Press of New England, 1999
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald
ISBN-13: 9780807072134 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2007
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People and Society: Ethnicity and ReligionBecoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston
Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, Lisa Fagin Davis
ISBN-13: 9781584657903 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2009
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An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston’s Maimonides School
Seth Farber
ISBN-13: 9781584653387 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2003
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The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day
Stephen Puleo
ISBN-13: 9780807050378 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2008
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The Jews of Boston
Jonathan D. Sarna, Ellen Smith, Scott-Martin Kosofsky, editors
ISBN-13: 9780300107876 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2005
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No Closure: Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns
John C. Seitz
ISBN-13: 9780674053021 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2011
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People and Society: Race and Civil RightsHarriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region
JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, Barbara W. White, editors
ISBN-13: 9781584656425 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2007
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The Other Boston Busing Story: What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line
Susan E. Eaton
ISBN-10: 0300087659 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300087659 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2001
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Boston against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Ronald P. Formisano
ISBN-13: 9780807855263 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2004
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All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry
Peter P. Hinks, Stephen Kantrowitz, editors
ISBN-13: 9780801450303 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2013
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Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America
Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick
ISBN-13: 9780807050194 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2004
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The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985
Adam R. Nelson
ISBN-13: 9780226571898 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226571904 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2005
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People and Society: Boston FeminismThe Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840
Anne M. Boylan
ISBN-10: 0807827304 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807854042 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807827307 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807854044 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2002
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Vincent Carretta
ISBN-13: 9780820333380 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2011
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Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940
Sarah Deutsch
ISBN-13: 9780195057058 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780195158649 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2000
An Independent Woman: The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier
Edith Guerrier, Molly Matson
ISBN-13: 9780870237560 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 1992
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Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Debra Gold Hansen
ISBN-13: 9780870238482 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558497634 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
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Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim
Meg McGavran Murray
ISBN-13: 9780820328942 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820343358 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820336596
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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People and Society: PoliticsThe Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989
Anthony Champagne, Douglas B. Harris, James W. Riddlesperger Jr., Garrison Nelson
ISBN-13: 9781603441162 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781603441209 (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 2009
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The Making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
Gerald H. Gamm
ISBN-13: 9780226280608 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226280615 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 1989
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Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City: Somerville, MA
Susan A. Ostrander
ISBN-13: 9781439910122 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781439910139 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781439910146
Temple University Press, 2013
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Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
ISBN-13: 9780823233052 (paper)
Fordham University Press, 2012
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People and Society: Labor and UnionsCommonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions
Thomas Juravich, William F. Hartford, James R. Green
ISBN-13: 9781558490451 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558490468 (paper)
University Press of New England, 1996
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At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
Tom Juravich
ISBN-13: 9781558497252 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2009
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People and Society: CrimeA Murder in Wellesley: The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor’s Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
Tom Farmer, Marty Foley
ISBN-13: 9781555537913 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781555537975
University Press of New England, 2012
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Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Susan Starr Sered, Maureen Norton-Hawk
ISBN-13: 9780520282780 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520282797 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520958708
University of California Press, 2014
Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin
Casey Sherman
ISBN-13: 9781555538224 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781555538217
University Press of New England, 2013
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
Susan Tejada
ISBN-13: 9781555537302 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781555537784
Temple University Press, 2012
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Final Confession: The Unsolved Crimes of Phil Cresta
Brian P. Wallace, Bill Crowley
ISBN-13: 9781555534493 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781611683783 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781611683790
University Press of New England, 2000
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Return to Top Arts and Culture General
Literary Boston
Theater, Music, and Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Sports Arts and Culture: GeneralAmerican Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn
Scott MacDonald
ISBN-13: 9780520275614 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520275621 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520954939
University of California Press, 2013
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Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum
Katherine Wolff
ISBN-13: 9781558497139 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558497146 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2009
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Arts and Culture: Literary BostonLittle Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, 1870–1871
Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott; Daniel Shealy, editor
ISBN-13: 9780820330099 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780820342870
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston
Dorothy C. Broaddus
ISBN-13: 9781570032448 (cloth)
University of South Carolina Press, 1999
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"Face Zion Forward": First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798
Joanna Brooks, John Saillant
ISBN-13: 9781555535391 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2002
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Boston: Voices and Visions
Shaun O’Connell
ISBN-13: 9781558498198 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558498204 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
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With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others
Kathleen Spivack
ISBN-13: 9781555537883 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781555537654
University Press of New England, 2012
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Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography
Hanna Wallinger
ISBN-13: 9780820327044 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820343457 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820343945
University of Georgia Press, 2005
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Arts and Culture: Theater, Music, and Performing ArtsRadio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN
Carter Alan
ISBN-13: 9781555537296 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781555538262
University Press of New England, 2013
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George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England
Bill F. Faucett
ISBN-13: 9781555537722 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781555537739 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781555537746
University Press of New England, 2012
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See You at the Hall: Boston’s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance
Susan Gedutis
ISBN-13: 9781555536404 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2004
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Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet
Christine Temin, Photographs by Wally Gilbert
ISBN-13: 9780813033532 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2009
Arts and Culture: Visual ArtsSuper Vision
Nicholas Baume, editor
ISBN-13: 9780262026093 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2006
Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism
Judith Bookbinder
ISBN-13: 9781584654889 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2005
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The Art of Kahlil Gibran at Telfair Museums
Suheil Bushrui, Tania June Sammons
ISBN-13: 9780933075122 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2010
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Denman Ross and American Design Theory
Marie Frank
ISBN-13: 9781584659693 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781611680256 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781611680126
University Press of New England, 2011
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The Glass Industry in South Boston
Joan E. Kaiser
ISBN-13: 9781584658047 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2010
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John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration
Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, Kate Smith, editors
ISBN-13: 9780300122909 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2010
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Painting in Boston: 1950-2000
Rachel R. Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, Jennifer Uhrhane
ISBN-13: 9781558493643 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2002
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Photography In Boston: 1955-1985
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Gillian Nagler, editors
ISBN-13: 9780262122290 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2000
Nature and Culture: The Art of Joel Babb
Carl Little, Christopher Crosman, Bernd Heinrich, Anita Shreve, editors
ISBN-13: 9781611684308 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2013
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Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views
D. Brenton Simons
ISBN-13: 9781584657408 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2010
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Arts and Culture: SportsTed Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life
Lawrence Baldassaro, editor
ISBN-13: 9781555535506 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2003
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Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark
Michael Ian Borer
ISBN-13: 9780814799765 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780814799772 (paper)
New York University Press, 2008
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Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Howard Bryant
ISBN-13: 9780807009796 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2003
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A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Bill Felber
ISBN-13: 9780803211360 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780803226364 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
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Boston's Cycling Craze, 1880-1900: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
Lorenz J. Finison
ISBN-13: 9781625340733 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781625340740 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2014
Boston’s Ballparks and Arenas
Alan E. Foulds
ISBN-13: 9781584654094 (cloth)
University Press of New England, 2005
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The Boston Braves, 1871-1953
Harold Kaese
ISBN-13: 9781555536176 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2004
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Red Sox Nation Guide to the Players
William F. McNeil
ISBN-13: 9781555536992 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781555537111
University Press of New England, 2008
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The Stars Are Back: The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Unrest in 1946
Jerome M. Mileur
ISBN-13: 9780809332717 (cloth)
Southern Illinois University Press, 2013
The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports
Randy Roberts, editor
ISBN-13: 9780674015043 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2005
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