Bibliography of Boston

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 

"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 

Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351 

Directories

Boston Directory

Guides

"Boston", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876 

"Boston", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, pp. 253–274, OCLC 02338437 

"Boston". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1917. 

Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Boston: the Hub of the Universe", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Cambridge: Riverside Press 

Donlyn Lyndon (1982), The City Observed, Boston: a Guide to the Architecture of the Hub, New York: Vintage Books, OL 23256413M 

John Harris (1989), Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston, Chester: Globe Pequot Press, OL 2213403M 

Boston, New York: Fodor's, 1996, OL 24710817M 

"New England: Massachusetts: Boston", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M 

Boston (2nd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 24751454M 

Morris, Jerry (2005). The Boston Globe Guide to Boston. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-3430-6. 

Southworth, Michael; Southworth, Susan (2008). AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd Edition: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods (3 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-4337-7. 

Wechter, Eric B.; et al. (2009). Fodor's Boston 2009. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-0699-1. 

Vorhees, Mara (2009). Lonely Planet Boston City Guide (4 ed.). Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74179-178-5. 

Hull, Sarah (2011). The Rough Guide to Boston (6 ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4053-8247-2. 

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 0-316-47282-4. 

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 1-58465-740-5. 

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 0-486-24312-5. 

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

List of works, arranged chronologically

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

Abraham Rees (1819), "Boston", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 

Caleb H. Snow (1828). History of Boston. Boston: Abel Bowen. 

David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Boston". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. 

"Boston", American Advertising Directory, for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods, New York: Jocelyn, Darling & Co., 1831, OCLC 1018684 

1850s-1890s

Josiah Quincy (1852), Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown 

J. Willoughby Rosse (1858). "Boston". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust. 

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1868). "Boston". North American Review. 106: 1–25. JSTOR 25108129. 

Justin Winsor, ed. (1880–1881), Memorial History of Boston, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, OCLC 4953409 

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

Edward H. Savage (1884), Boston Events, Boston: Tolman & White, printers 

Bacon, Edwin Munroe, and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.

South End House (1898), Robert A. Woods, ed., The City Wilderness: a Settlement Study, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 849952 

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

"Boston". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. 

Frederick Harold Fay (1901), Population and finances of Boston, Boston: Municipal Print. Office, OCLC 6055315 

Henry James (1906). "Boston". North American Review. 182: 333–355. JSTOR 25105534. 

"Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822", Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, City of Boston, 1909 

A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, City of Boston, 1910 

Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder. New Encyclopedia of Social Reform. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 124–126. 

Edward Hungerford (1913), "Our Ancient Hub", Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company 

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and Albert Bushnell Hart, ed. (1914). "Boston". Cyclopedia of American Government. 1. D. Appleton and Company. 

Hartnell, Edward Mussey; McGlenen, Edward Webster; Skelton, Edward Oliver, Boston and its story, 1630-1915, City of Boston (Mass.), Printing Department, 1916.

Edwin Monroe Bacon (1916). Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Pilgrim Press. 

Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth; Stephen Elliott Kramer (1922). "Boston". Great Cities of the United States. Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company. 

Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1928 – via State Library of Massachusetts. 

S. Foster Damon (1935). "The Genesis of Boston". The Atlantic. 156. 

Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1938 – via State Library of Massachusetts. 

1950s-1970s

Kevin Lynch (1960), "Boston", Image of the City, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 16+, OL 5795447M 

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (1964), Report on the existing industrial crisis in the city of Boston 

Walter Muir Whitehill (1964), Boston: Portrait of a City, Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, OL 5912910M 

Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.

Martin Green (1966). Problem of Boston. W.W. Norton & Company. OCLC 1016725. 

Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.

George F. Weston (1967), Boston ways: high, by, and folk, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 16413538M 

Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, ed. (1969), Nineteenth-Century Cities, Yale Studies of the City, Yale University Press, OL 5440390M  (includes essays about Boston)

Carl Seaburg (1971), Boston Observed, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 4769638M 

Boston Redevelopment Authority (1972), City of Boston: current problems and issues 

Darrett B. Rutman (1973), "Boston: 'A Citty upon a Hill'", in Alexander B. Callow, American Urban History (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, OL 5307653M 

Stephan Thernstrom (1973), The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674644956 

Howard Mumford Jones; Bessie Zaban Jones (1975). Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-47282-4. 

Douglass Shand-Tucci (1978), Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950, New York Graphic Society, OL 24751516M 

1980s-1990s

Jane Holtz Kay (1980), Lost Boston, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0395276098 

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 

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

Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)

Walter Muir Whitehill (2000), Boston: a Topographical History (3rd ed.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, OL 58903M 

Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Boston". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8. 

Charles C. Euchner, ed. (2003), Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, ISBN 0-9718427-1-X 

Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research 

Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0262194945. 

David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Boston". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8. 

Jim Vrabel (2004), When in Boston: a Time Line & Almanac, Boston: Northeastern University Press, ISBN 1555536212 

David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576070271 

John Hanson Mitchell (2009). Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7149-6. 

American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts. 

"Boston's income divide largest in US", Boston Globe, January 15, 2016 [1]

"Better use of data could make cities more efficient—and more democratic", The Economist, March 26, 2016