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Cities in the Wilderness: Urban Life in America 1625-1742
Cities in the Wilderness Urban Life in America 16251742 Author:Carl Bridenbaugh This richly detailed, highly readable history, a large-scale study of the founding and early growth of the five major cities of Colonial America - Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport and Charleston - is a major work, a winner of the Justin Winsor prize of the Americant Historical Association. it shows the importance of urban society during ... more »the early Colonial period, as contrasted with rural and frontier societies.« less