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Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age

This week really showed us the divide between classes that was present in Latin America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I was particularly interested by the quote “one person’s boom was always another’s crisis” (141), as it helped me put the “golden age” and what that term meant for different groups of individualsContinue reading “Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age”

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