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The Boston Irish: A Political History
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Author: Thomas H. C'Connor
- "'The dean of Boston historians' ... earns that title, embodying as he does the best aspects of the two Irish strains -- openess and loyalty." --New York Times
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Boston: A Topographical History
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Author: Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy
- From an Amazon reader: "This book is ideal for anyone looking for a general account of Boston history. It acquants one with many of the important stages in the development of the city; covering the period from the colonial to approximately 1970. The information regarding the colonial period is excellent, as is the book itself. It is not specific, but provides an introduction to many great way points for further study." (2000)
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Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall
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Author: Judith S. Graham (editor)
- From an Amazon reader: "A warm and engaging portrait of a Puritan family ... Popular readers may find the historiographical discussion tedious, but professional historians, local historians, and genealogists will appreciate Graham's painstaking research and common-sense assessment of Puritan parents' attitudes towards their children." (2000)
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
- From an Amazon reader: "Philbrick's book is 'off the charts' excellent ... [it provides] a view of the voyage preceding the incident and its aftermath, the whaling industry and Nantucket itself. The Quaker influence on the Nantucket whaling trade is an intriguing story in itself. This is a simply wonderful and well-written book. From the first chapter the reader gets the feeling of being swept up into a developing catastrophe. I only wish I still had this book yet to read. No wonder this story inspired one of the greatest American novels ever written; Moby Dick." (2001)
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate
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Author: Owen Chase
- On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale repeatedly rammed the whaleship Essex, causing her to sink. The 20-man crew were left in three small, open boats in the middle of the Pacific with little food and only 200 gallons of water. Bereft of charts, the boats sailed due east in the hopes of sighting land. Battered by storms, the boats became separated. Some 90 days later, a few men were rescued -- but not before they had been forced to make a terrible decision. (1821, 1999)
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
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Author: James Deetz
- "An updated and expanded edition of a classic of modern archaeology gathers information about the daily life of the American colonists, including women and blacks, based on the analysis of domestic objects and architecture." --Ingram (1996)
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Red Sox Century
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Author: Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson
- "The Boston Red Sox have always been New England's team, but the appeal of the franchise extends across the nation. So much of the game's history and so many of its memorable moments are associated with the Red Sox that to be a baseball fan at all is to identify with the team on some level. Stout, the series editor for Best American Sports Writing, and Johnson, the curator of the New England Sports Museum, have compiled a wondrous book that will enthrall baseball fans of all ages and team..." (2001)
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
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Author: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- From an Amazon reader: "After finishing this book, I am amazed that this book is not more prominent in famous literature. Much of US and sailing history can be learned through this true firsthand account of a Harvard student gone temporary salty dog. I am not from California or even the west coast but still found the stories contained throughout the book fascinating. Dana did an excellent job of describing the life at sea in the early 1800's without a moment of boring reading. I would recommend (and have been recommending) this book to anyone and everyone." (2000)
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The Making of a Sailor, or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger
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Author: Frederick Pease Harlow
- From an Amazon reader: "This is the best description of the hard life of an American sailor in the 1870s. Harlow, from New England, describes his first coastal voyage on a schooner, down the coast and up the Chesapeake and the Potomac. Then he tells of his long voyage to Australia on a square rigger. The book is fascinating and easy to read even if you don't fully understand all the nautical terms. It is well documented with sea chanteys, pictures and explanatory footnotes." (1988)
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Main Streets & Back Roads of New England: The Best of Chronicle's Award-Winning WCVB-TV Series
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Author: Susan Sloane and Chris Stirling
- A collection of stories on New England towns, from "Chronicle" on Boston's channel 5. (October 2001)
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