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Boston

Autor: Todd Mcewen

Número de Páginas: 273

William Fisher lleva una vida tranquila en Boston, trabaja de administrador en el Instituto de Ciencias, tiene pareja y, ocasionalmente, toca su violín (don Chirridos). Un buen día, durante una excursión a la laguna Walden (y tras la inesperada aparición del fantasma de Thoreau), Fisher resbala sobre la superficie helada del lago y se golpea la cabeza perdiendo el conocimiento. Desde ese instante, todo parece conjurarse para que nada en la existencia de William vuelva a ser como antes. Le esperan una sucesión de bizarras coincidencias y bochornosas trifulcas que, en menos de una semana, lo empujarán a liderar una estrafalaria revolución y a participar en una espectacular persecución policial, en esta particular y satírica huida del mundo moderno y sus absurdos.

Boston á Washington

Autor: Robert Curtis Ogden

Número de Páginas: 270

Reimpresión del original, primera publicación en 1876.

Boston Terrier

Autor: Alma Bettencourt

Número de Páginas: 163

La información más completa sobre los orígenes, estándar, temperamento, características, adiestramiento, concursos, cuidados y salud de esta raza singular

La fiesta del te de boston

Autor: Lilly

Número de Páginas: 28

Introduces Important Events Of The 1773 Event Known As The Boston Tea Party.

Boston Weekly Magazine

Número de Páginas: 232

Building A New Boston

Autor: Thomas H. O'connor

Número de Páginas: 372

"Here is one of the great stories in American urban history told by a great historian. In 1949, Boston was 'a hopeless backwater' . . . by 1970, a 'New Boston' had been created . . . Thomas O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, brings to this tale of transformation rich learning, intimate familiarity with his subject, and a lucid sometimes witty pen." -- Jack Beatty, Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly

How Boston Played

Autor: Stephen Hardy

Número de Páginas: 316

"Whether consciously molding the city through the construction of public spaces or developing social ties through organizations such as athletic clubs, Bostonians of all classes participated in recreation-based community building, often at cross-purposes. Elite Bostonians, for instance, promoted the establishment of parks as a healthy alternative to unsavory activities, such as drinking and gambling, that they associated with the city's vast new pool of immigrants. They were soon forced to compromise, however, with citizens who were less interested in the rhetoric of moral uplift than in using the parks for competitive athletics and commercial amusements."--BOOK JACKET.

Boston

Autor: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

Número de Páginas: 132

On March 4, 1822, the townsfolk of Boston voted to incorporate their town as the City of Boston. A great change had just taken place, but even greater changes were to come during the ensuing century, as Boston's population grew from 50,000 to 750,000 by 1922 and as it developed from a colonial town into the "Hub of the Universe." Boston: A Century of Progress brings to life one hundred amazing years, from 1822 to 1922. More than two hundred fascinating images are combined with compelling text to take us on a mesmerizing journey back into our past and bring us face to face with the people, places, and events which shaped Boston's destiny. Through these images we explore neighborhoods ranging from the North End to Downtown, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and Fenway. We see landmarks and buildings both familiar and long-gone - schools, churches, mansions, stores, tenements, and parks. We meet not only the movers and shakers but also the ordinary people who lived, worked, and played in Victorian Boston, including the vast numbers of immigrants (by 1850, half of all Bostonians were foreign-born).

Boston Modern

Autor: Judith Arlene Bookbinder

Número de Páginas: 418

A fresh, incisive study of the expressionist approach to modern art in Boston.

The Boston elbow

Número de Páginas: 44

The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston

Autor: Jody Marie Weber

Número de Páginas: 288

The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston provides a regional history of the physical education pioneers who established the groundwork for women to participate in movement and expression. Their schools and their writing offer insights into the powerful cultural changes that were reconfiguring women's perceptions of their bodies in motion. The book examines the history from the first successful school of ballroom dance run by Lorenzo Papanti to the establishment of the Braggiotti School by Berthe and Francesca Braggiotti (two wealthy Bostonian socialites who used their power and money to support dance in Boston). The Delsartean ideas about beauty and the expressive capacity of the body freed upper-class women to explore movement beyond social dance and to enjoy movement as artistic self expression. Their interest and pleasure in early "parlor forms" engaged them as sponsors and advocates of expressive dance. Although revolutionaries such as Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis also garnered support from Boston and New York's social sets, in Boston the relationship of the city's elite and its native dancers was both intimate and ongoing. The Braggiotti sisters did not...

Boston Confucianism

Autor: Robert C. Neville

Número de Páginas: 300

Argues that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary, global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context.

Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920

Autor: Mark Schneider

Número de Páginas: 288

Discusses how activists in Boston upheld their anti-slavery tradition and promoted an equal rights agenda during the years between 1890 and 1920, a period in which African-Americans throughout the country were being deprived of civil and political justice.

On the Road North of Boston

Autor: Donna-belle Garvin , James L. Garvin

Número de Páginas: 244

First published in 1988 by the New Hampshire Historical Society, and long since sought after, On the Road North of Boston is back in print. This richly illustrated, entertaining book is an invaluable resource for New Hampshire residents and students of the state's history alike. Nine extensively researched and meticulously prepared chapters depict historic taverns and tavern society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England. Donna-Belle and James Garvin vividly reconstruct the physical landscape: the taverns themselves, the network of roads, travel conditions, traffic and commerce. They immerse the reader in the contemporary tavern atmosphere: encounters with fellow travelers, food, drink, entertainment, and hospitality in its earliest incarnations "on the road north of Boston." On the Road North of Boston contains rare and wonderful black-and-white illustrations of authentic tavern signs and furnishings, broadsides advertising tavern entertainments, early photographs and drawings of tavern buildings, road signs, vehicles, and bridges, portraits of tavern keepers, stage drivers, and itinerant performers. This book offers modern New England residents and travelers rich...

A Short Description of the Boston Water-works

Autor: Desmond Fitzgerald

Número de Páginas: 76

The Story of the Great Fire, Boston, November 9-10. 1872, Etc

Autor: Pseud Carleton

Número de Páginas: 54

Statement of the Boston Children's Aid Society

Autor: Boston Children's Aid Society

Número de Páginas: 20

Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club of Boston, at Twilight Hall, Aug. 25th, 1890

Autor: Henry Austin

Número de Páginas: 464

Summer Excursions to the White Mountains, Mt. Desert, Montreal and Quebec, Winnipesaukee, Memphremagog, Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes, and the New England Beaches

Autor: Boston And Maine Railroad Company

Número de Páginas: 110

Report of the Auditor

Autor: Massachusetts. Dept. Of The State Auditor

Número de Páginas: 768

American Newspaper Directory

Número de Páginas: 1602

Joint Documents of the State of Michigan

Autor: Michigan

Número de Páginas: 1236

Journal of the Senate

Autor: Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

Número de Páginas: 906

Documents Printed by Order of the Senate ...

Autor: Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

Número de Páginas: 1596

A Manual for the Use of the General Court

Autor: Massachusetts. General Court

Número de Páginas: 602

Contains rules of both branches of the General Court, the constitution of the commonwealth and that of the United States, lists of executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state, etc.