HIST 186 Lecture 8: Week 8
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Describes the perceived rise and fall of the city. Begins as a center for trade, finance, cultural mixing, somewhat urban. Decline associated with rising population coupled with increased scarcity in resources and infrastructure. Violence and the underworld/expansion of the black market. Crisis" in the city, augmented incidents of terrorism. Fort, east india company, creation of trade across the white and black cities. Cotton in particular was a highly unstable and competitive industry in which local industrialists had to compete with better positioned european producers who had a monopoly on its trade. Industry made profitable on cheap labor, this brought diverse populations to the city from all over india to work in the mills. Shops on bottom of buildings, living quarters/offices on top. Concrete was often used because it was cheap yet efficient.
