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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention

Ben Wilson uses Metropolis to investigate a History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention through a carefully framed historical account. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and political science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780385543460

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