New England Metropolis Catherine R. Rhodes December 30

December 30

Recovery from the Operation II

labor on behalf of others

For centuries the Spanish Empire's conscripted laborers extracted silver from hand-dug tunnels and shafts deep beneath the mountain spine of the Americas

(including 178 previously unseen images)

New England Metropolis Catherine R. Rhodes December 30At the start of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the west. Yet by 1850, New England had been transformed into one of the most industrialized regions in the world. Former agricultural villages had become specialized manufacturing towns producing consumer goods for sale, and Boston merchant capitalists had