Greater Boston
Subtitle: adapting regional traditions to the present
By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr. ; illustrations by the author.
Series: Metropolitan portraits
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Regionalism -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region; Human geography -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region; Boston Region (Mass.) -- Civilization; Boston Region (Mass.) -- Social conditions; Boston Region (Mass.) -- Economic conditions
Description: "From eastern Massachusetts to southern New Hampshire, five million people call greater Boston home. Drawing on more than thirty years as a resident of the region himself, renowned urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., reveals a vibrant, ethnically diverse American metropolis, a mixture of cities and small wooded towns, a region built on tradition, yet able to keep pace and set trends in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227) and index.