Boston's South End: The Clash of Ideas in a Historic Neighborhood - Couverture rigide

López, Russ

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798991370424

Editeur : Shawmut Peninsula Press, 2024

Synopsis

Boston's South End is one of the largest intact Victorian row house districts in the United States. It also has stylish twenty-first century condo buildings, Modernist housing projects, and award-winning gardens and parks. For centuries, people have come to this densely populated one square mile neighborhood carrying their dreams of a better life and ideas about what constitutes healthy urban living.

The South End has been home to nineteenth century preachers, sixties radicals, and millennial tech entrepreneurs. It welcomed people from Europe, Asia, the southern United States, Caribbean, and Latin America at a time when many other places rejected them. Sheltering poets, crusading journalists, and people of all incomes, the neighborhood was a place where women could pursue ideas and careers that traditional society had closed off to them and LGBTQ people could be themselves and create lives free of prejudice.

This book chronicles how this beautiful neighborhood came into being and the many dramas, triumphs, and tragedies that have happened here.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Russ López is a historian and author based in Provincetown and the South End of Boston. He has worked at Boston City Hall and the Massachusetts State House and has decades of experience with LGBTQ and straight politics. With his masters from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University, Lopez's scholarship is focused on urban studies and the issues affecting people who live in cities, especially those who are often disenfranchised or rarely have an opportunity to have their voices heard. His history books include Boston's South End, Boston 1945 - 2015, and The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond. He is also the author of numerous short stories and other articles that have been published in magazines and journals ranging from Xinachtli Journal-Journal X to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shawmut Peninsula Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798991370424
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne