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How did the port of Bristol, shown in this chapter, symbolize the growth of capitalism and the mercantilist philosophy of Europe in the eighteenth century?
1920s
The decade from 1920 to 1929, marked by significant social, economic, and cultural changes worldwide.
Changes
The process or act of making or becoming different.
Planned Obsolescence
A business strategy in which products are deliberately designed to have a limited useful life or become outdated quickly, encouraging consumers to purchase new or upgraded products more frequently.
Fordlandia
A failed industrial town founded in the Brazilian Amazon by American industrialist Henry Ford in the 1920s, intended to secure a source of cultivated rubber for his automobile manufacturing operations.
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