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Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks
Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks
. Edited By Charles E.
Beveridge
, Lauren
Meier
, and Irene
Mills
. (Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 2015
. Pp. xiv, 430. $74.95
.)
Tamara Plakins Thornton
Tamara Plakins Thornton
Tamara Plakins Thornton, professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo, is the author of Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860 (1989) and served as a historical consultant for the 2014 PBS documentary Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. Her most recent book is Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life (2016).
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Tamara Plakins Thornton
Tamara Plakins Thornton, professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo, is the author of Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860 (1989) and served as a historical consultant for the 2014 PBS documentary Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. Her most recent book is Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life (2016).
Online Issn: 1937-2213
Print Issn: 0028-4866
© 2016 by The New England Quarterly
2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The New England Quarterly (2016) 89 (2): 342–345.
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Tamara Plakins Thornton; Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks. The New England Quarterly 2016; 89 (2): 342–345. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_r_00539
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