Boston

A Topographical History

Third Edition, Enlarged

Walter Muir Whitehill

Lawrence W. Kennedy

    1. "Fittest for such as can trade into England"

    2. The Eighteenth Century

    3. The Boston of Bulfinch

    4. Cutting Down the Hills to Fill the Coves

    5. Railroads and Immigrants

    6. The Flight from the South End

    7. The Filling of the Back Bay

    8. The Westward Movement

    9. A Decade of Renewal

    10. A Beacon Once More

    11. Toward the New Millennium

    Appendix

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: Boston
  • A photo of the author

The late Walter Muir Whitehill was the Director of the Boston Athenaeum.

Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.