Eden on the Charles The Making of Boston

Name: Eden on the Charles The Making of Boston
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ISBN: 9780674416833

ISBN-10: 067441683X

ISBN-13: 9780674416833

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Rawson

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Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships social, cultural, political, economic, and legal were established during America s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America s…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Michael Rawson is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.