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Bibliography of Boston

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

Nonfiction

General

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Bibliographies

Directories

Guides

History by date of publication

1700s

1800s-1840s

1850s-1890s

1900s-1940s

  • Statistical analysis of census data.

1950s-1960s

  • Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
  • Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
  • On geography and neighborhoods.
  • (includes essays about Boston)

1970s

  • The standard history for the period.
  • VOGEL, MORRIS J.   "BOSTON'S HOSPITALS, 1870-1930: A SOCIAL HISTORY." (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1974. T-25317).
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1980s

  • Short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. See index at pp. 406–411 for list.
  • Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays (1983), extensive coverage of Boston.
  • Vogel, Morris J. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston 1870-1930 (U of Chicago Press,1985)

1990s

  • (fulltext via Open Library)

2000s

  • Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
  • Tager, Jack. (2001) Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Upne, 2001).
  • Matos Rodrííguez, Féélix V. (2001) "'The Browncoats are Coming': Latino Public History in Boston." Public Historian 23.4 (2001): 15-28.
  • Bjarkman, Peter C. (2002) Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Sports Publishing LLC, 2002).
  • Rawson, Michael. (2004) "The nature of water: reform and the antebellum crusade for municipal water in Boston." Environmental history 9.3 (2004): 411-435.
  • Dolin, Eric Jay. (2004) Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor, a unique environmental success story (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
  • Minardi, Margot. (2004) "The Boston inoculation controversy of 1721-1722: an incident in the history of race." William and Mary Quarterly 61.1 (2004): 47-76. online
  • Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
  • Kaufman, Polly Welts, et al. (2006) Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History (Applewood Books, 2006).
  • Nathan, Gavin. (2006) Historic Taverns of Boston: 370 Years of Tavern History in One Definitive Guide (iUniverse, 2006).
  • Kay, Jane Holtz. (2006) Lost Boston (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2006), destroyed buildings.
  • Puleo, Stephen. (2007) The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon Press, 2007).
  • Gelber, Scott. (2008) "'The crux and the magic': The Political History of Boston Magnet Schools, 1968–1989." Equity & Excellence in Education 41.4 (2008): 453-466.
  • Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).

2010-present

  • York, Neil L. (2010) The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents (Routledge, 2010).
  • Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. (2013) Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads (Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir. (2013) Boston Public Library (Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Holmes, Pauline. (2013) A Tercentenary History of the Boston Public Latin School, 1635–1935 (Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) A history of Boston in 50 artifacts (University Press of New England, 2016).
  • http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/01/14-income-inequality-cities-update-berube-holmes
  • Levesque, George A. (2018) Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860 (Routledge, 2018).

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