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Our Earliest Cities
Rourke, Constance | May 6, 1939 issue

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The article focuses on the book entitled "Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742." The book is written by Carl Bridenbaugh. According to the author it is a richly packed book in which Bridenbaugh shows that Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, and Charles Town became cities within a hundred years of their foundation, indeed that before half that time had elapsed they were acquiring the stability, the growing density of population, the dominating position in relation to surrounding territory, the recognition of communal problems, and the will to solve them which belong to urban organization.

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CITIES in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742 (Book); BRIDENBAUGH, Carl; CITIES & towns; SOCIAL history; PLOTS (Drama, novel, etc.); STYLE, Literary
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