At the bottom, on the other side of the ' hierarchical frontier ', were the peasantry and the townspeople.
The townspeople's upper layer was ethnically multinational and tended to be well-educated.
In general, poor townspeople did not want a baladiyya, whereas the well-to-do were more favorably disposed toward it.
Duggan is shocked by the townspeople's apathy and apparent illness hair falling out, baggy eyes, pale skin, exhaustion, etc.
Townspeople were not solely dependent on the university for their livelihoods, however.
In doing so, however, they fail to reproduce the townspeople's exact personalities, leading to suspicion and eventually to the deaths of two of the aliens.
Long-lasting notions of civic liberties clashed with the claims of town authorities to rule as sovereigns over their townspeople.
All the townspeople were present.
