Eden on the Charles : : The Making of Boston / / Michael Rawson.
In Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, Michael Rawson examines how the city's relationship with its natural surroundings informed its early growth and development. His compelling, well-researched narrative touches on several milestones on Boston's road to modernity, including the Co...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Summary: | In Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, Michael Rawson examines how the city's relationship with its natural surroundings informed its early growth and development. His compelling, well-researched narrative touches on several milestones on Boston's road to modernity, including the Common's conversion from a place of labor to a place of leisure, the emergence of pastoral suburbs as a respite from an increasingly urbanized landscape, and the long fight over a proposed municipal water system to bring fresh water to those who needed it most.Perhaps the book's most important lesson comes from a frustrated mariner who, upset over the maltreatment of the harbor, laments that "the past seems to be forgotten, the present only is regarded as of importance, and a veil is drawn over the future." Eden on the Charles is a valiant effort to combat such shortsightedness, reminding us that the key to building a successful community lies in respecting the natural resources that provide for it and in understanding our responsibility to our fellow citizens. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674058552 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674058552?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michael Rawson. |