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Politics and Culture in Early America

Lectures in History

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The City and the History of Urban Development and Change

The impact of urban growth allowed young women to enter into a waged work force in a significant way for the first time. Urban property development and consolidation allowed some wealthy merchants to prosper, while a lot of other people found themselves crowded and squeezed. And we can place this history that we've seen here to day in a long arc of historical scholarship That looks at these questions from a lot of different angles.

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