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Boston

A People’s Guide to Greater Boston explores 150 sites across Greater Boston.

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It is a region whose ruling classes have long seen as having importance far beyond its borders: e.g. as a biblical “City on a Hill”; “the Athens of America”; and a birthplace of revolutions–from that which spawned the United States to that of the Internet. Beginning with sites associated with indigenous people and later struggles against colonial conquest, the Guide introduces the reader to a decidedly different city. It reveals movements for peace, abolition, universal suffrage, as well as experiments with industrial organization and economic democracy, from the 18th century to the present. The Guide brings the reader to Boston’s many neighborhoods as well as to nearby municipalities – Concord, Lawrence, Salem, Quincy and others. In doing so, it unveils the workings of a city over a time and space illustrating how it has helped produce, and often contest, unjust power and inequality – nationally and globally.

A People’s Guide to Greater Boston

Contributors

Suren Moodliar

Greater Boston

Suren Moodliar is the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy, and coordinator of encuentro5, a movement-building center in Downtown Boston.

Joseph Nevins

Greater Boston

Joseph Nevins, a professor of geography at Vassar College, grew up in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.

Eleni Macrakis

Greater Boston

Eleni Macrakis is an urban planner and a life-long resident of the City of Cambridge.

Selected Sites

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U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station and Dorchester District Courthouse

The Newbury

The Metropolitan/Parcel C

The Arlington Mills

Suffolk Downs

Science for the People/Helen Keller Collective

Rockledge

Raytheon Corporate Headquarters

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Resources

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A People’s Guide to Firsting and Lasting in Boston

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