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Mapping Boston, edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner ; contributing essays by David Bosse ... [and others] ; vignettes accompanying the plates, Anne Mackin ; map descriptions, Nancy S. Seasholes and David Cobb

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Mapping Boston, edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner ; contributing essays by David Bosse ... [and others] ; vignettes accompanying the plates, Anne Mackin ; map descriptions, Nancy S. Seasholes and David Cobb

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-254) and indexes

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

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non fiction

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Mapping Boston

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bibliography

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52851706

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edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner ; contributing essays by David Bosse ... [and others] ; vignettes accompanying the plates, Anne Mackin ; map descriptions, Nancy S. Seasholes and David Cobb

Table Of Contents

Introduction : Revealing a city/exploring its maps / Alex Krieger -- A brief history of Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Diagramming the growth of Boston / Nancy S. Seasholes and Amy Turner -- The mapping of New England before 1800 / Barbara McCorkle -- The Boston map trade of the eighteenth century / David Bosse -- Windows to our past : mapping in the nineteenth century and beyond / David Cobb -- The New England plates -- Gaining ground : Boston's topographical development in maps / Nancy S. Seasholes -- Experiencing Boston : encounters with the places on the maps / Alex Krieger -- The Boston plates -- Map of good hope : Boston in the American imagination / James Carroll

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