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

Nonfiction

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General

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  • 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.
  • Peterson, Mark (2019). The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630−1865. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17999-5.
  • 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.

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Bibliographies

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  • 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. Vol. 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • 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, hdl:2027/uc1.b4524371
  • "Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, vol. 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440, hdl:2027/njp.32101065267914
  • Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351

Directories

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Guides

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History by date of publication

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1700s

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  • 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

1800s-1840s

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1850s-1890s

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1900s-1940s

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1950s-1960s

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  • Bridenbaugh, Carl (1955). Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776.
  • Blake, John B (1959). Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630–1822. Harvard University Press.
  • 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, OL 24149173M
  • 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.
  • Rutman, Darrett B. (1965). Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630–1649. U of North Carolina Press.
  • 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
  • Waters, John J. (1968). The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts.
  • Whitehill, Walter Muir (1968). Boston: A Topographical History (2nd ed.). Harvard University Press. On geography and neighborhoods.
  • Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, ed. (1969), Nineteenth-Century Cities, Yale Studies of the City, Yale University Press, OL 5440390M (includes essays about Boston)

1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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  • Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958.
  • Lawrence W. Kennedy (1992), Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, OL 1562221M
  • O'Toole, James M. (1992). Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859–1944.
  • 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, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
  • Fischer, David Hackett (1994). Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press.
  • Susan Wilson (1994), Boston Sites & Insights, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 1421334M
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1995). Boston: A Century of Progress. Dover, N.H: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-738538761. OL 1028399M.
  • O'Connor, Thomas H. (1995). The Boston Irish: A Political History.
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1997). The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing.
  • Lawrence W. Kennedy (1998). "Boston, Massachusetts". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780874368468 – via Credo Reference. (subscription required)

2000s

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  • Deutsch, Sarah. (2000). Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940. Oxford University Press.
  • 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
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell & Price, Michael (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing.
  • Vale, Lawrence J. (2000). From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press.
  • Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
  • Kane, Paula M. (2001). Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900–1920.
  • 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).
  • Charles C. Euchner, ed. (2003), Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, ISBN 978-0-9718427-1-7
  • Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
  • Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262194945.
  • Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (July 2003). "Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston". 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
  • 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 978-1555536213
  • Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
  • David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1576070277
  • 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.
  • Simons, D. Brenton (2008). Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-58465-740-8.
  • Connolly, James J (2009). The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900–1925.
  • John Hanson Mitchell (2009). Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7149-6.
  • Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).

2010-present

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  • Carp, Benjamin L (2010). Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America.
  • 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).
  • American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (May 1, 2014). Lost Boston. Pavilion Press. ISBN 978-1-909815049.
  • Rawson, Michael J. (2014). Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674416833.
  • Johnson, Marilynn S. (2015). The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s. University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) A history of Boston in 50 artifacts (University Press of New England, 2016).
  • "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
  • Levesque, George A. (2018) Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860 (Routledge, 2018).
  • Peterson, Mark (2019). The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Princeton University Press.

Fiction

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Main article: Boston in fiction

See also

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