Richard Clement Wade
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American historian
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- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Clement Wade was an American historian and urban studies professor who advised many Democratic politicians and candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern. As a historian, he pioneered the interdisciplinary application of social science techniques to the study of urban history and helped make cities an important academic subject. His first book The Urban Frontier was a challenge to Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier thesis, asserting that the catalysts for western expansion were the Western cities like Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati, not the pioneer farmers.
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