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

The first history of the South End in over 100 years, this book covers everything from the coming of the first inhabitants shortly after the end of the ice age to the affluence of the 21st century. There are sections on its development and first age of posterity,its nearly 100 years when it was a rooming house and tenement district, urban renewal, and changes over the past several decades.