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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

History That Doesn't Suck

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Farmers Get Up With the Sun

In the gilded age, tens of millions of people whove never lived in a world of the city will move there. This is going to change not just the way they work, but the way they perceive the world around them and their relationship to nature. And what ends up happening is that you go from a life defined by nature to a lifedefined by the clock. It's a fundamental shock to one's place in the world.

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