Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Bostonians
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Other Black Bostonians
Author: Violet M. Johnson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253112389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in the context of the city's immigrant history, the book charts new conceptual territory. The Other Black Bostonians explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility. What emerges is a detailed picture of black immigrant life. Johnson's work makes a contribution to the study of the black diaspora as it charts the history of this first wave of Caribbean immigrants.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253112389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in the context of the city's immigrant history, the book charts new conceptual territory. The Other Black Bostonians explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility. What emerges is a detailed picture of black immigrant life. Johnson's work makes a contribution to the study of the black diaspora as it charts the history of this first wave of Caribbean immigrants.
Black Bostonians
Author: James Oliver Horton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonianswas the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community. The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combined quantitative and traditional historical methods to reveal the rich fabric of a thriving society, where people from all walks of life organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action, and which was a center of the antislavery movement. CONTENTS: Profile of Black Boston. Families and Households in Black Boston. Formal and Informal Organizations and Associations. The Community and the Church. Leaders and Community Activists. Segregation, Discrimination, and Community Resistance. The Integration of Abolition. The Fugitive and the Community. A Decade of Militancy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonianswas the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community. The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combined quantitative and traditional historical methods to reveal the rich fabric of a thriving society, where people from all walks of life organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action, and which was a center of the antislavery movement. CONTENTS: Profile of Black Boston. Families and Households in Black Boston. Formal and Informal Organizations and Associations. The Community and the Church. Leaders and Community Activists. Segregation, Discrimination, and Community Resistance. The Integration of Abolition. The Fugitive and the Community. A Decade of Militancy.
Improper Bostonians
Author: History Project (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807079492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807079492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.
The Proper Bostonians
Author: Cleveland Amory
Publisher: Parnassus Press (IL)
ISBN: 9780940160255
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Looks at high society in Boston, shares anecdotes about the social elite, and describes their manners and customs
Publisher: Parnassus Press (IL)
ISBN: 9780940160255
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Looks at high society in Boston, shares anecdotes about the social elite, and describes their manners and customs
Norse Mythology for Bostonians: A Transcription of the Impudent Edda
Author: Rowdy Geirsson
Publisher: Puffin Carcass
ISBN: 9780578586526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A humorous compendium of the ancient Norse myths, as well as some new ones, as told by an irate Bostonian. Based on the long-running McSweeney's Internet Tendency web column, Norse History for Bostonians.
Publisher: Puffin Carcass
ISBN: 9780578586526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A humorous compendium of the ancient Norse myths, as well as some new ones, as told by an irate Bostonian. Based on the long-running McSweeney's Internet Tendency web column, Norse History for Bostonians.
The Bostonians
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight? “The Bostonians has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. “It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals . . . [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed—and wildly comic—realism.”
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight? “The Bostonians has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. “It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals . . . [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed—and wildly comic—realism.”
The Boston Massacre
Author: Serena R. Zabin
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544911156
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Prologue: March, 1770 -- Families of Empire -- Inseparable Interests, 1766-1767 -- Seasons of Discontent, 1766-1767 -- Under One Roof -- Love Your Neighbor, 1768-1770 -- Absent Without Leave 1768-1770 -- A Deadly Riot -- Gathering Up, 1770-1772 -- Epilogue: Civil War, 1772-1775.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544911156
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Prologue: March, 1770 -- Families of Empire -- Inseparable Interests, 1766-1767 -- Seasons of Discontent, 1766-1767 -- Under One Roof -- Love Your Neighbor, 1768-1770 -- Absent Without Leave 1768-1770 -- A Deadly Riot -- Gathering Up, 1770-1772 -- Epilogue: Civil War, 1772-1775.
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants
Author: Arthur Robert Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Before Busing
Author: Zebulon Vance Miletsky
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. And the book gives credit to the Black organizers, parents, and children who fought long and hard battles for justice that have been left out of the standard narratives of the civil rights movement. What emerges is a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city—a fight that continues to this day.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. And the book gives credit to the Black organizers, parents, and children who fought long and hard battles for justice that have been left out of the standard narratives of the civil rights movement. What emerges is a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city—a fight that continues to this day.