Boston, One Hundred Years a City
Title | Boston, One Hundred Years a City PDF eBook |
Author | State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN |
One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States
Title | One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Eminent Literary Men |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 2023-02-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3382109794 |
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Fundamentalists in the City
Title | Fundamentalists in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Lamberts Bendroth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2005-07-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198038771 |
Fundamentalists in the City is a story of religious controversy and division, set within turn of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It offers a new perspective on the rise of fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of local events, both sacred and secular, in deepening the divide between liberal and conservative Protestants. The first part of the narrative, beginning with the arrest of three clergymen for preaching on the Boston Common in 1885, shows the importance of anti-Catholicism as a catalyst for change. The second part of the book deals with separation, told through the events of three city-wide revivals, each demonstrating a stage of conservative Protestant detachment from their urban origins.
Boston, 1822 to 1922
Title | Boston, 1822 to 1922 PDF eBook |
Author | John Koren |
Publisher | Jazzybee Verlag |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
John Koren gives insights into the story of Boston as a municipality since its inception in 1822 until the year 1922, with its changing forms of government and its multitudinous activities for the betterment of conditions of living. The frame work of the book is mostly limited to tracing the development and undertakings of the City of Boston for a century, under successive city administrations.
Dark Tide
Title | Dark Tide PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Puleo |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2010-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807096679 |
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-"Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.
Boston's "changeful Times"
Title | Boston's "changeful Times" PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Holleran |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780801866449 |
He describes subdivision design innovations and the use of deed restrictions, limits on building heights, and neighborhood zoning protection to control ever-increasing urban growth.
Gaining Ground
Title | Gaining Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy S. Seasholes |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2018-04-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0262350211 |
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.