Bibliography of Boston explained

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

Nonfiction

General

• Book: Beagle . Jonathan M. . Penn . Elan . Boston: A Pictorial Celebration . 2006 . Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. . 978-1-4027-1977-6.
• Book: Bluestone . Barry . Stevenson . Mary Huff . The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis . Russell Sage Foundation . 2002 . 978-1-61044-072-1 .
• Book: Bolino, August C. . Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society . iUniverse . 2012 . 978-1-4759-3376-5 .
• Book: Brown, Robin . The Boston Globe . Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub . 2009 . Globe Pequot . 1 . 978-0-7627-5062-7 .
• Book: Christopher, Paul J.. 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit . Encouragement Press, LLC. . 2006 . 978-1-933766-01-0 .
• Book: Hantover . Jeffrey . King . Gilbert . City in Time: Boston . 2008 . Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. . 978-1-4027-3300-0.
• Book: Kennedy, Lawrence W. . Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630 . University of Massachusetts Press . 1994 . 978-0-87023-923-6 .
• Book: Krieger . Alex . Cobb . David . Turner . Amy . Mapping Boston . 2001 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-61173-2.
• Book: O'Connell, James C. . The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth . MIT Press . 2013 . 9780262018753 .
• Book: O'Connor, Thomas H. . Thomas H. O'Connor . Boston: A to Z . 2000 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-00310-1.
• Book: Peterson, Mark . The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630−1865 . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 2019 . 978-0-691-17999-5.
• Book: Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925 . 2000 . Price . Michael . Sammarco . Anthony Mitchell . Arcadia Publishing . 978-0-7524-0921-4.
• Book: Seasholes, Nancy S.. Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Press. 2003. 978-0-262-19494-5. registration.
• Book: Shand-Tucci, Douglass . Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 . 2 . University of Massachusetts Press . 1999 . 978-1-55849-201-1 .
• Book: Vrabel, Jim . Bostonian Society . When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac . 2004 . Northeastern University Press . 978-1-55553-620-6.
• Book: Whitehill . Walter Muir . Kennedy . Lawrence W. . Boston: A Topographical History . 3 . 2000 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-00268-5 .

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Bibliographies

• Book: Henry Stevens. Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum . 1866. C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press . London . Boston . https://books.google.com/books?id=SCQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA71 .
• Book: Bibliotheca Americana . . New York . 1869 . 13972268 . 2 . Boston . https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofbook02sabi#page/302/mode/1up .

Directories

• Boston Directory

Guides

• • • Book: Automobile Blue Book . 1917 . Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. . New York . Boston . https://archive.org/stream/OfficialAutomobileBlueBook/officialautomobilebluebook1917-02#page/n329/mode/2up . Automobile Blue Book .
      • • • • Book: Morris, Jerry . The Boston Globe Guide to Boston . Globe Pequot . 2005 . 978-0-7627-3430-6 .
• Book: Southworth . Michael . Southworth . Susan . AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd Edition: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods . 2008 . 3 . Globe Pequot . 978-0-7627-4337-7.
• Book: Wechter, Eric B. . Fodor's Boston 2009 . Random House Digital, Inc. . 2009 . 978-1-4000-0699-1 . etal .
• Book: Vorhees, Mara . Lonely Planet Boston City Guide . Lonely Planet . 4 . 2009 . 978-1-74179-178-5 .
• Book: Hull, Sarah . The Rough Guide to Boston . Penguin . 6 . 2011 . 978-1-4053-8247-2 .

History by date of publication

1800s-1840s

• • Book: Caleb H. Snow . History of Boston . Boston . Abel Bowen . 1828.
• Book: William Blackwood . 1830 . Edinburgh . Edinburgh Encyclopædia . David Brewster . Boston . https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo03edinuoft#page/772/mode/2up . Edinburgh Encyclopædia .

1850s-1890s

• Book: Quincy, Josiah . Josiah Quincy III . A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston During Two Centuries from September 17, 1630, to September 17, 1830 . Boston . Charles C. Little & James Brown . 1852. 7063863M.
• Book: Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World . J. Willoughby Rosse . London . . 1858 . Hathi Trust . Boston . 2027/uva.x030807786 .
• Book: King, Moses . Moses King . King's hand-book of Boston . Cambridge, Mass. . M. King . 1878.
• Boston . Charles Francis Adams, Jr. . North American Review . 106 . 218 . 1868 . 1–25 . 25108129 . 2027/chi.25854397 . Charles Francis Adams, Jr .
  • • v.1: Early and Colonial Periods
  • v.2: Provincial Period
  • v.3: Revolutionary Period. The Last Hundred Years, Pt.1
  • v.4: Last Hundred Years, Pt.2. Special topics
  • Bacon, Edwin M., and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.

1900s-1940s

• Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia . London . https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency02lond#page/344/mode/1up . Boston . 1901 . Chambers's Encyclopaedia .
  • Boston . Henry James . North American Review . 182 . 592 . 1906 . 333–355 . 25105534 . 2027/chi.16251213 . Henry James .
    • Book: William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder . New Encyclopedia of Social Reform . 1910 . Funk & Wagnalls . New York . Boston . https://books.google.com/books?id=z4czAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA124 . 124–126 . Robert A. Woods .
  • Book: . Cyclopedia of American Government. 1914. D. Appleton and Company . Boston . https://archive.org/stream/cyclopediaofamer01mcla#page/146/mode/2up . 1 .
• Book: Hartnell . Edward Mussey . McGlenen . Edward Webster . Skelton . Edward Oliver . amp . Boston and its story, 1630–1915 . City of Boston (Mass.) Printing Department . 1916 .
• Book: Edwin M. Bacon . Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis . 1916 . Pilgrim Press . Boston. 9780788428951. Edwin Munroe Bacon.
• Book: Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth. Stephen Elliott Kramer. Great Cities of the United States . 1922. Iroquois Publishing Company . Syracuse, New York . Boston . https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb9EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141 .
• Book: Atlas of the City of Boston . G.W. Bromley & Co. . 1928 . .
• The Genesis of Boston . . 156 . 1935 . S. Foster Damon . S. Foster Damon .
• Book: Miller, John C. . Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda . 1936.
• Book: Atlas of the City of Boston . G.W. Bromley & Co. . 1938 . .
• Book: Bridenbaugh, Carl . Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625–1742 . 1938.
• Book: Handlin, Oscar . Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation . 1941. Statistical analysis of census data.

1950s-1960s

• Book: Bridenbaugh, Carl . Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 . 1955.
• Book: Blake, John B . Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630–1822 . Harvard University Press . 1959.
  • • • Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
• Book: Rutman, Darrett B. . Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630–1649 . U of North Carolina Press . 1965.
• Book: Martin Green . Problem of Boston . 1016725 . W.W. Norton & Company . 1966 .
• Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
  • Book: Waters, John J. . The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts . 1968.
• Book: Whitehill, Walter Muir . Boston: A Topographical History . 2nd . Harvard University Press . 1968. On geography and neighborhoods.
• (includes essays about Boston)

1970s

• Book: Warden, Gerard B. . Boston, 1689–1776 . 1970. The standard history for the period.
  • • • • Book: McCaughey, Robert A. . Josiah Quincy 1772–1864: The Last Federalist . Harvard University Press . 1974.
• Book: Jones . Howard Mumford . Jones . Bessie Zaban . The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975 . Boston . Little, Brown and Company . 1975 . 978-0-316-47282-1 . Howard Mumford Jones. \
• Book: Russell, Francis . A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike . 1975.
• Book: Conzen . Michael P. . Lewis . George King . amp . Boston: A Geographical Portrait . 1976.
• Book: Trout, Charles H. . Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal . 1977 .
• Book: Warner, Sam Bass . Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900 . 2nd . 1978.
  • Ethnic political transition in Boston, 1884–1933: Some lessons for contemporary cities . Eisinger . Peter K. . 1978 . Political Science Quarterly . 93 . 2 . 217–239. 10.2307/2148607 . 2148607 .

1980s

• • • • Book: Holli . Melvin G. . Jones . Peter d'A. . amp . Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820–1980 . Greenwood Press . 1981 . Short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. See index at pp. 406–411 for list.
  • Book: Vanderwarker, Peter . Boston Then and Now . Courier Dover Publications . 1982 . 978-0-486-24312-2 .
• News: Wickersham . Jay . Browsing tour: A guide to the guides to Boston architecture . October 7, 2024 . The Boston Phoenix . December 7, 1982.
• Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays (1983), extensive coverage of Boston.
• Book: Formisano . Ronald P. . Burns . Constance K. . amp . Boston, 1700–1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics . Greenwood Press . 1984 .
  • Book: Gamm, Gerald H. . The making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting behavior and realignment in Boston, 1920–1940 . University of Chicago Press . 1989.

1990s

• Book: Beatty, Jack . The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 . 1992.
  • Book: O'Toole, James M. . Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859–1944 . 1992.
  • (fulltext via Open Library)
• Book: Fischer, David Hackett . Paul Revere's Ride . Oxford University Press . 1994.
  • Book: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell . Boston: A Century of Progress . 1995 . Arcadia Publishing . Dover, N.H. 978-0-738538761. 1028399M .
• Book: O'Connor, Thomas H. . The Boston Irish: A Political History . 1995.
• Book: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell . The Great Boston Fire of 1872 . Arcadia Publishing . Images of America . 1997.
• Book: Lawrence W. Kennedy . 1998 . Boston, Massachusetts . Encyclopedia of Urban America . 9780874368468 . ABC-CLIO . Credo Reference .

2000s

• Book: Deutsch, Sarah. . Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 . Oxford University Press . 2000.
• Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
  • Book: Sammarco . Anthony Mitchell . Price . Michael . amp . Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925 . Arcadia Publishing . Images of America . 2000.
• Book: Vale, Lawrence J. . From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors . Cambridge, Mass. . Harvard Press . 2000.
• Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
• Book: Kane, Paula M. . Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900–1920 . 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).
  • • Book: Nancy S. Seasholes . Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston . Cambridge, Massachusetts . MIT Press . 2003 . 978-0262194945 . registration .
• Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston . Ulrich . Laurel Thatcher . July 2003 . Common-Place . 3 . 4 . American Antiquarian Society.
• 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
• Book: David Levinson. Encyclopedia of Homelessness . 2004. Sage Publications. 978-0-7619-2751-8 . Boston . https://books.google.com/books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&pg=PA29 .
  • 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.
• Book: Simons, D. Brenton . Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views . 2008 . University Press of New England . 978-1-58465-740-8.
• Book: Connolly, James J . The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900–1925 . 2009.
• Book: John Hanson Mitchell . Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. 2009. Beacon Press. 978-0-8070-7149-6.
• Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).

2010-present

• Book: Carp, Benjamin L . Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America . 2010.
• 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).
• Web site: Boston . America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles . 2013 . American Cities Project . Washington, D.C. . .
• Book: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell . Lost Boston . Pavilion Press . May 1, 2014 . 978-1-909815049.
• Book: Rawson, Michael J. . Michael J. Rawson . Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston . 2014 . Harvard University Press . 978-0674416833.
• Book: Johnson, Marilynn S. . The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s . University of Massachusetts Press . 2015.
• 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).
• Book: Peterson, Mark . The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 . Princeton University Press . 2019.

Fiction

See main article: article and Boston in fiction.

See also

• Media in Boston
• Boston Book Festival
• List of booksellers in Boston

External links

• Web site: Research Publications . Boston Redevelopment Authority . City of Boston . 2015-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150504064820/http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/research-maps/research-publications . 2015-05-04 . dead . Boston Redevelopment Authority .

Catalogs

• Boston Public Library. Online catalog: subject:(boston)
• Bostonian Society. Online Catalog
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Boston, various dates
• Europeana. Items related to Boston, Massachusetts, various dates.
• Massachusetts Historical Society. Online library catalog
• WorldCat. su:Boston (Mass.)