Beacon Hill : The Life and Times of a Neighborhood / / Moying Li-Marcus ; [new foreword by Jeffrey E. Klee] |
Autore | Li-Marcus Moying <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northeastern University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource xvi, 176 pages) : : illustrations (some color), map |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A New Vision for an Old Hill, 1630-1900 -- The Shawmut Peninsula -- When Patriots Gathered -- The Mount Vernon Proprietors -- Moving Mountains--Literally -- Enclave of Charm: Louisburg Square -- "Brahmins" on the South Slope -- Sliding Fortunes -- The North Slope -- America's First Black Church -- The Fight against Slavery -- Beacon Hill Bohemian -- The Beacon Hill Renaissance, 1900-1930 -- "Streetfighter": Marian Nichols -- Real Estate Savvy: The Codmans -- Architectural Passion: Frank A. Bourne -- Launching the Beacon Hill Association -- A Gentleman and a "Bull Dog": Arthur D. Hill -- Developers, Beware -- A Tale of Two Main Streets -- Enter the Automobile -- The "Lost Generation" -- Christmas on the Hill -- War & Peace, 1940-1950 -- Japanese and Other "Strangers" -- Return of the GI -- The Brick Savers Ride Again -- Mothers against Storrow Drive -- Nowhere to Go but Down -- West End Story -- A Hill for History -- Reinventing Beacon Hill, 1960-2000 -- Awakenings -- Battle for the North Slope -- Today's Interior, Yesterday's Wall -- Town and Gown -- The Summer of Love -- The '60s Generation Digs In -- Hill House -- Charles Street Fair -- Small Miracles -- Beacon Hill Village in the New Millennium. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524689703321 |
Li-Marcus Moying <1954-> | ||
Northeastern University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boston and the dawn of American independence / / Brian Deming |
Autore | Deming Brian <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 974.02 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-59416-604-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467507503321 |
Deming Brian <1954-> | ||
Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boston and the dawn of American independence / / Brian Deming |
Autore | Deming Brian <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 974.02 |
ISBN | 1-59416-604-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Let Loose His Wrath -- Favorable Signs -- Small Spark -- Two Young Eagles -- Most Essential Rights -- A Farthing -- Rage of Devils -- Joyful Day -- Tail of a Rattle Snake -- Ripe for Riot -- Gloom and Uneasiness -- Impudent, Virulent, and Seditious Lies -- Weakness of Government -- Blood of the Righteous Abel -- Fire and Be Damned -- Hang the Dog! -- Stubborn Things -- Every Step but One -- Blackhearted Fellows -- Reproached and Reviled -- Firm, Intrepid, and Inflexible -- Doctrine of Devils -- When the Wicked Beareth Rule -- Sharpest Thorn -- Eagerness and Spirit -- Unclean Birds -- World Turned Upside Down -- Bells a Ringing -- For God's Sake Fire -- Our All at Stake -- Nothing Remarkable -- Breast Works -- Suburbs of Hell -- Amen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794256203321 |
Deming Brian <1954-> | ||
Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boston and the dawn of American independence / / Brian Deming |
Autore | Deming Brian <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 974.02 |
ISBN | 1-59416-604-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Let Loose His Wrath -- Favorable Signs -- Small Spark -- Two Young Eagles -- Most Essential Rights -- A Farthing -- Rage of Devils -- Joyful Day -- Tail of a Rattle Snake -- Ripe for Riot -- Gloom and Uneasiness -- Impudent, Virulent, and Seditious Lies -- Weakness of Government -- Blood of the Righteous Abel -- Fire and Be Damned -- Hang the Dog! -- Stubborn Things -- Every Step but One -- Blackhearted Fellows -- Reproached and Reviled -- Firm, Intrepid, and Inflexible -- Doctrine of Devils -- When the Wicked Beareth Rule -- Sharpest Thorn -- Eagerness and Spirit -- Unclean Birds -- World Turned Upside Down -- Bells a Ringing -- For God's Sake Fire -- Our All at Stake -- Nothing Remarkable -- Breast Works -- Suburbs of Hell -- Amen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818865903321 |
Deming Brian <1954-> | ||
Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence / / Jack Tager ; picture researcher, Ruth Owen Jones ; [new foreword by Gordana Rabrenovic] |
Autore | Tager Jack |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northeastern University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource xii, 289 pages) : : illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Violence
Social conditions Riots Race relations Violence - Massachusetts - Boston - History Riots - Massachusetts - Boston - History |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato | History of the Americas |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century setting -- A variety of Riots: Food, Customs, Antielite, and Pope Day Riots -- The Impressment Riot of 1747 -- Antebellum Boston: Norm Enforcement, Race, and Abolition Riots -- Anti-Catholic Rioting in Antebellum Boston: The Ursuline Convent and the Broad Street Riots -- Anti-Catholic Tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863 -- The 1919 Police Strike Riots -- Ghetto Riots, 1967-1968 -- Antibusing Riots, Fall 1974 -- Antibusing Riots, 1975-1976 -- Conclusion -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524693803321 |
Tager Jack | ||
Northeastern University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor / / edited by James M. O'Toole and David Quigley ; [new foreword by Julie de Chantal] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northeastern University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 284 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Social conditions
Politics and government |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | O'Connor's Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- "A long train of hideous consequences" : Boston, capital punishment, and the transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805 / Alan Rogers -- Power and social responsibility : entrepreneurs and the Black community in Antebellum Boston / Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank -- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg -- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. O'Toole -- Charles Sumner and the political cultures of reconstruction in Massachusetts / David Quigley -- The Irish question and Boston politics / Lawrence W. Kennedy -- Contested bodies and souls : immigrant converts in Boston, 1890-1940 / Kristen A. Petersen -- "A strong argument for juries" : the saga of Willett v. Herrick / Mark I. Gelfand -- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 / Sarah Deutsch -- The last hurrah and the pluralist vision of American politics / James J. Connolly -- The failure of Catholic interracialism in Boston before busing / William Leonard -- The Catholic Church and the desegregation of Boston's public schools / James E. Glinski. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524688903321 |
Northeastern University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The geology and early history of the Boston area of Massachusetts : a bicentennial approach : the role of geology in the important events that took place around Boston 200 years ago / / by Clifford A. Kaye |
Autore | Kaye Clifford A (Clifford Alan), <1916-1985, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1976 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 78 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Collana | Geological Survey bulletin |
Soggetto topico |
Geology - Massachusetts - Boston
Geology |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Geology and early history of the Boston area of Massachusetts |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910708473003321 |
Kaye Clifford A (Clifford Alan), <1916-1985, > | ||
Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1976 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Hub : Boston Past and Present / / Thomas H. O'Connor ; [new foreword by Robert J. Allison] |
Autore | O'Connor Thomas H. <1922-2012.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northeastern University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource xv, 310 pages) : : illustrations |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cradle of Liberty -- A Wilderness Zion -- Loyalty Versus Liberty -- From Colony to Commonwealth -- Athens of America -- From Town to City -- The Reform Impulse -- Liberty and Union -- Melting Pot -- Winds of Change -- Clash of Cultures -- A City Divided -- A New Boston -- Building a New City -- Race and Ethnicity -- Life in a Changing City. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524689403321 |
O'Connor Thomas H. <1922-2012.> | ||
Northeastern University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The paradise of all these parts [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history of Boston / / John Hanson Mitchell |
Autore | Mitchell John Hanson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 508.744/61 |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - Massachusetts - Boston
Urban ecology (Sociology) - Massachusetts - Boston |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8070-9750-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453830103321 |
Mitchell John Hanson | ||
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The paradise of all these parts [[electronic resource] ] : a natural history of Boston / / John Hanson Mitchell |
Autore | Mitchell John Hanson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 508.744/61 |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - Massachusetts - Boston
Urban ecology (Sociology) - Massachusetts - Boston |
ISBN | 0-8070-9750-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782371103321 |
Mitchell John Hanson | ||
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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