Massachusetts at a Glance: A User's Guide to the Bay State

by Jack Tager

Book Overview

Designed for both residents and visitors, this book offers an alphabetically arranged compendium of information about people, places, and events -- past and present -- in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its aim is to provide a handy one-volume reference guide to a state that has played a central role in American history since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Site of the first Thanksgiving in the seventeenth century and seedbed of revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494405
• ISBN13: 9781558494404
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher