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Category : Baxter Family
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Richard Stephen Charnock
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Michael Rawson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.

Author: Patrick Hanks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192527479
Category : History
Languages : en
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Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1278

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Author: Ch. W. E. Bardsley
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871144012
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 857

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Author: George William Field
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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1282

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Category : Cheshire
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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