Short History of Boston

by Allison, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781889833477
• ISBN10: 1889833479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: ARCADIA

Summary

Until 2004 and the publication of "A Short History of Boston," there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first. His book includes a wealth of illustrations, a lengthy chronology of the key events in four centuries of Boston history, and twenty short profiles of exceptional Bostonians, from founder John Winthrop to heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, from "heretic" Anne Hutchinson to Russian-American author Mary Antin. Says the Provincetown Arts, "A first-rate short history of the city, lavishly illustrated, lovingly written, and instantly the best book of its kind."

Author Biography

Robert J. Allison teaches history at Suffolk University and in the Harvard Extension School. He earned his doctorate in the History of American Civilization at Harvard. He and his family make their home in South Boston

Table of Contents

View from Long Wharf	6	(2)
1. From Quonehassit to Boston	8	(15)
2. Boston in the Revolution	23	(18)
3. Boston in the New Nation	41	(9)
4. Boston in the Nineteenth Century	50	(18)
5. City Transformed	68	(26)
6. The New Boston	94	(14)
7. Return to Long Wharf	108	(4)
Chronology	112	(8)
Further Reading	120	(2)
Acknowledgments	122	(1)
Index	123