Portrait of a City by Bruce F. Pauley PAPERBACK 9781496234124

Portrait of a City\nby Bruce F. Pauley\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bruce F. Pauley\nTitle: Portrait of a City\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9781496234124\nISBN-10: 149623412X\nRRP: \u00A323.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revolution and an increase in machine labor affected all aspects of daily life\u2014housework, transportation, education, entertainment, fashion, and medicine\u2014changing lives drastically in little more than a single generation. Lincolnites moved beyond .