Bibliography of Boston

The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts, USA.:

Man reading the Boston Globe in 2009
Man reading about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013

Nonfiction

General

  • Beagle, Jonathan M.; Penn, Elan (2006). Boston: A Pictorial Celebration. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-1977-6.
  • Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff (2002). The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-072-1.
  • Bolino, August C. (2012). Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-3376-5.
  • Brown, Robin; The Boston Globe (2009). Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub (1 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-5062-7.
  • Christopher, Paul J. (2006). 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit. Encouragement Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-933766-01-0.
  • Hantover, Jeffrey; King, Gilbert (2008). City in Time: Boston. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-3300-0.
  • Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1994). Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-923-6.
  • Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David; Turner, Amy, eds. (2001). Mapping Boston. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61173-2.
  • O'Connell, James C. (2013). The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018753.
  • O'Connor, Thomas H. (2000). Boston: A to Z. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00310-1.
  • Price, Michael; Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0921-4.
  • Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19494-5.
  • Shand-Tucci, Douglass (1999). Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 (2 ed.). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-201-1.
  • Vrabel, Jim; Bostonian Society (2004). When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-620-6.
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (2000). Boston: A Topographical History (3 ed.). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00268-5.

Bibliographies

  • Henry Stevens (1866). "Boston". Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.
  • Joseph Sabin, ed. (1869). "Boston". Bibliotheca Americana. 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.
  • Frederic Beecher Perkins (1876), "Boston", Check List for American Local History: Reprinted with Additions from the Bulletins of the Boston Public Library, Rockwell & Churchill, pp. 12–33, hdl:2027/uc1.b4524371
  • "Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440, hdl:2027/njp.32101065267914
  • Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351

Directories

Guides

List of works, arranged by author

  • Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 (1992) online edition
  • Blake, John B. Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Harvard UP, 1959).
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742 (1938) online edition
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955)
  • Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010)
  • Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (2009).
  • Conzen, Michael P., and George King Lewis, eds. Boston: A geographical portrait (1976)
  • Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford UP, 1994) online edition
  • Eisinger, Peter K. "Ethnic political transition in Boston, 1884-1933: Some lessons for contemporary cities." Political Science Quarterly (1978): 217-239. in JSTOR
  • Formisano, Ronald P., Constance K. Burns, eds. Boston, 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics (Greenwood Press, 1984) online edition, the standard political history
  • Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation (1941)
  • Jones, Howard Mumford; Jones, Bessie Zaban (1975). The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-47282-1.
  • Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920 (2001) online edition
  • McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy 1772-1864: The Last Federalist (Harvard UP, 1974)
  • Miller, John C. Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda (1936)
  • O'Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: A Political History (1995)
  • O'Toole, James M. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944 (1992)
  • Russell, Francis. A City in Terror--1919--: The Boston Police Strike (1975).
  • Rutman, Darrett B. Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649 (U of North Carolina Press, 1965).
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell; Price, Michael, Boston's immigrants, 1840-1925, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2000
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1995). Boston: A Century of Progress. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738538761.
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, The Great Boston Fire of 1872, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 1997
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, Lost Boston, Pavilion Press, May 1, 2014. ISBN 978-1909815049
  • Simons, D. Brenton (2008). Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-58465-740-8.
  • Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston, Common-Place, American Antiquarian Society, v.3, n.4, July 2003
  • Vale, Lawrence J., "From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press, 2000).
  • Vanderwarker, Peter (1982). Boston Then and Now. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-24312-2.
  • Warden, Gerard B. Boston, 1689-1776 (1970), the standard history for the period
  • Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (2nd ed. 1978)
  • Waters, John J. The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts (1968)
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History, (2nd ed. Harvard UP, 1968), on geography and neighborhoods
Published in the 18th century
  • Names of the Streets, Lanes & Alleys within the Town of Boston, Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1708, OCLC 511023684
  • Thomas Pemberton (1794), Topographical and Historical Description of Boston
Published in the 19th century
1800s-1840s
1850s-1890s
Published in the 20th century
1900s-1940s
1950s-1970s
1980s-1990s
  • Jane Holtz Kay (1980), Lost Boston, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0395276099
  • Allan Pred (1980), "Boston's City-System Interdependencies", Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840–1860, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, pp. 65–83, ISBN 9780674930919
  • Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Boston", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
  • Peter Vanderwarker (1982), Boston Then and Now: 59 Boston sites photographed in the past and present, New York: Dover Publications, OL 4271212M
  • "City with a Ticking Time Bomb", Financial Times, London, March 6, 1984
  • Lawrence W. Kennedy (1992), Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, OL 1562221M
  • Robert Campbell; Peter Vanderwarker (1992), Cityscapes of Boston: an American City Through Time, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., OL 1562103M
  • George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Boston", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
  • Susan Wilson (1994), Boston Sites & Insights, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 1421334M
  • Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (1995), Boston, Dover, N.H.: Arcadia, OL 1028399M
  • Lawrence W. Kennedy (1998). "Boston, Massachusetts". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780874368468 via Credo Reference. (subscription required)
Published in the 21st century

Fiction

See also

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