Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America
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Title
Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America
Description
A collection of papers on family history and demography in the United States. Based on 1974 Williams College seminar. Coedited by the author of "Amoskeag": a study in oral history on millwork in Manchester, New Hampshire. From a review of "Family and Population" written by Lois Horton, featured in the journal, Ethnohistory: "This volume of essays brings the perspective of family history to the study of urbanization and industrialization. The authors draw on a wide variety of approaches and data sources to examine marriage, fertility, family and household composition, and life style in rapidly changing nineteenth-century America....The essays in 'Family and Population in Nineteenth Century America' clearly demonstrate the shortcomings of other studies which draw conclusions about family and household patterns from the study of the social facts contained in aggregate data. Their greatest strength is the illumination of the complexities of human behavior and the importance of factors which can only be discovered by examining smaller units of social organization."
Creator
Hareven, Tamara K. (editor)
Vinovskis, Maris (editor)
Date
1978
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
19th century; United States
Contribution Form
Online Submission
No
Zotero
ISBN
9780691100692
Num Pages
250
Place
Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Series
Quantitative studies in history
URL
Family and Population... @ Google Books