| Description |
xiv, 278 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 x 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-254) and indexes. |
| 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 |
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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. |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Maps.
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| Added Author |
Krieger, Alex, 1951-
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Cobb, David A., 1945-
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Turner, Amy.
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Bosse, David C.
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| ISBN |
0262112442 hardcover alkaline paper |
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