Challenging a simplistic narrative of post-industrial decline, Nichols offers a sweeping, two-century history of two ordinary cities made and remade by the crises of global capitalism. Rather than a single rise, or fall, Nichols shows how booms and busts cascade over the centuries through waves of new migrations.
Shaun S. Nichols is an Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. He is a native of Fall River, Massachusetts.