Mapping Boston
by Krieger, Alex
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0262112442
- ISBN 13
- 9780262112444
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
The MIT Press, 1999 4to (30.5 cm), 290 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (tears top back of dust jacket, cloth of the back board scratched). An informative and beautiful exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005063
- Title
- Mapping Boston
- Author
- Krieger, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0262112442
- ISBN 13
- 9780262112444
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Boston
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cartography; Bibliography;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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