Abstract
This publication offers a visual portrait of Massachusetts - its history, its political and economic development and its people. With the aid of hundreds of colour maps, graphs and illustrations, the atlas traces the history of the Bay State from pre-European colonization through the 1980s and documents the evolution of the human imprint on the landscape. Using modern cartographic tools and methods - from satellite imagery to computer-generated graphics - the book presents information about the state's history and development. The atlas begins with a chronological history of Massachusetts that discusses Native American settlements, European contacts, the Puritan commonwealth, the royal colony, the Revolutionary and Federalist eras, 19th-century industrialization and urbanization, and the 20th-century metropolitan and postindustrial commonwealth. The book then examines the political and social landscape of the state, exploring such topics as political organization, women's experience, ethnicity and race, health care, architecture, communications, transportation and energy, and the unique case of the Quabbin Reservoir.
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