Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0813 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Manchester: 20,000 to 400,000
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The idea
Manchester had coal, a canal and wool artisans. By the anchor's count it grew from twenty thousand in seventeen fifty to forty thousand in seventy-five, two hundred fifty thousand in eighteen thirty-one and four hundred thousand in fifty: two thousand percent in a century.
In practice
Urbanization, the anchor says, absolutely exploded.
Where people slip
The witness has its dirt-floor shanties; the counts are the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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