Bibliography of Boston

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

Nonfiction

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Directories

* ''Boston Directory''

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History

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* Beatty, Jack. ''The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958'' (1992)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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), the standard political history
* Gamm, Gerald H. ''The making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting behavior and realignment in Boston, 1920-1940'' (University of Chicago Press, 1989).

* Handlin, Oscar. ''Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation'' (1941)
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* Kane, Paula M. ''Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920'' (2001)
* 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
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''The Great Boston Fire of 1872''
Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 1997
* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, ''Lost Boston'', Pavilion Press, May 1, 2014.
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* Trout, Charles H. ''Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal'' (1977
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*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"
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* 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

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v.1
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* Bacon, Edwin M., and Edward, George
"Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston"
Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
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* Hartnell, Edward Mussey; McGlenen, Edward Webster; Skelton, Edward Oliver
''Boston and its story, 1630-1915''
City of Boston (Mass.), Printing Department, 1916.
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* Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", ''The William and Mary Quarterly'' 22(1): 75-92.
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* Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", ''Economic Geography'' 42 (2): 152-171.
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* Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
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* 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).

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* 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
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* Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) ''After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800.'' Upne, 2005.
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* 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), destroed 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).
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* 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).
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* Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) ''A history of Boston in 50 artifacts'' (University Press of New England, 2016).


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* Levesque, George A. (2018) ''Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860'' (Routledge, 2018).

Fiction

See also

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

External links

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* Boston Public Library. Online catalog
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* Bostonian Society
Online Catalog
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* Digital Public Library of America
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* Europeana
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* Massachusetts Historical Society
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* WorldCat
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