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- catalog abstract ""To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness - bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries." "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 vignettes 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11310988.
- catalog contributor b11310989.
- catalog contributor b11310990.
- catalog contributor b11310991.
- catalog contributor b11310992.
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) Maps.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness - bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries." "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 vignettes 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-254) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction : Revealing a city/exploring its maps / Alex Krieger -- A brief history of Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Diagramming the growth of Boston / Nancy S. Seasholes and Amy Turner -- The mapping of New England before 1800 / Barbara McCorkle -- The Boston map trade of the eighteenth century / David Bosse -- Windows to our past : mapping in the nineteenth century and beyond / David Cobb -- The New England plates : vignettes / by Anne Macklin -- Gaining ground : Boston's topographical development in maps / Nancy S. Seasholes -- Experiencing Boston : encounters with the places on the maps / Alex Krieger -- The Boston plates : vignettes / by Anne Macklin -- Map of good hope : Boston in the American imagination / James Carroll.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 278 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262112442 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) Maps.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "912.744/61 21".
- catalog subject "Cartography Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "GA430 .M36 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : Revealing a city/exploring its maps / Alex Krieger -- A brief history of Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Diagramming the growth of Boston / Nancy S. Seasholes and Amy Turner -- The mapping of New England before 1800 / Barbara McCorkle -- The Boston map trade of the eighteenth century / David Bosse -- Windows to our past : mapping in the nineteenth century and beyond / David Cobb -- The New England plates : vignettes / by Anne Macklin -- Gaining ground : Boston's topographical development in maps / Nancy S. Seasholes -- Experiencing Boston : encounters with the places on the maps / Alex Krieger -- The Boston plates : vignettes / by Anne Macklin -- Map of good hope : Boston in the American imagination / James Carroll.".
- catalog title "Mapping Boston / edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb, with Amy Turner ; contributing essays by David Bosse ... [et al.] ; vignettes accompanying the plates, Anne Mackin ; map descriptions, Nancy S. Seasholes and David Cobb.".
- catalog type "Maps. fast".
- catalog type "text".