City of Second Sight : Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture /

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"In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into the "Athens of America," neighborhoods were...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Justin T., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Travel.
Occultism > Social aspects.
City planning > Social aspects.
Buildings.
Arts and society.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Arts et societe > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Occultisme > Histoire > 19e siecle > Aspect social > Massachusetts > Boston.
City planning > History > 19th century > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Arts and society > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
Occultism > History > 19th century > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Descriptions et voyages.
Boston (Mass.) > Description and travel.
Boston (Mass.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ordering Boston's landscape
  • Looking past disorder
  • Transcending the gallery
  • Drawing forth spirits
  • Discovering the blind
  • Enchanting the city.

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