The Handy Boston Answer Book

Samuel Willard Crompton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2016
Visible Ink Press (Verlag)
978-1-57859-593-8 (ISBN)

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Whether it's called Beantown, The Olde Towne, Titletown, The Cradle of Liberty, The Athens of America, The Puritan City, The City on a Hill, or any of its other obscure or oft-repeated nicknames, Boston has a long and varied history. Its universities and hospitals lead the nation, and its sports teams, politicians, and colloquialisms continue to captivate. Exploring this city's fascinating history, people, myths, culture and trivia, The Handy Boston Answer Book takes an in-depth look at one of America's oldest major cities.

Samuel Willard Crompton has spent much of his life within 100 miles of Boston, but he's never been a city kid. Rather, he was the country boy who observed the city from afar. He teaches history at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts and is the author or editor of many books, including Visible Ink's The Handy Civil War Answer Book, The Handy Military History Answer Book and The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: A Guide to the 50 States of America. He has a special interest in late-seventeenth-century Boston, the time when the Puritan ethos began to yield to that of the Yankee. As for sports, he has never run in the Boston Marathon, but he was at Fenway the night before Carl Yastremski made baseball history with his 3,000th career hit. He resides in Hadley, MA.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	120 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Canton, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	182 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-57859-593-2 / 1578595932
ISBN-13	978-1-57859-593-8 / 9781578595938
Zustand	Neuware