Fertility In Massachusetts From The Revolution To The Civil War

Author : Maris A. Vinovskis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fertility, Human
ISBN : OCLC:1162083376

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Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War by Maris A. Vinovskis Pdf

Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of fertility differentials and trends in Massachusetts from 1765 to 1860. The book provides useful insights into the nature of the development of Massachusetts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics covered in the text include analysis of the differentials and trends in white fertility ratios at the national, regional, and state levels; differentials and trends in mortality rates in Massachusetts; impact of land scarcity and the role of urbanization and industrializa.

Author : Maris A. Vinovskis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483266015

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Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War by Maris A. Vinovskis Pdf

Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of fertility differentials and trends in Massachusetts from 1765 to 1860. The book provides useful insights into the nature of the development of Massachusetts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics covered in the text include analysis of the differentials and trends in white fertility ratios at the national, regional, and state levels; differentials and trends in mortality rates in Massachusetts; impact of land scarcity and the role of urbanization and industrialization on fertility; relationship between modernization and changes in fertility in Massachusetts; and the correlation of the decline of fertility in the West with the situation in developing countries. Demographers, sociologists, historians, researchers, and economists will find the book interesting.

Author : Charles Sellers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199762422

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The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers Pdf

In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.

Author : Hilda H. Golden
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0819192872

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Immigrant and Native Families by Hilda H. Golden Pdf

This book provides precise information on historical demographic patterns, which are highly relevant to the issue of how immigration affected major demographic changes in the United States during the time of massive industrialization. Contents: The Significance of Nativity and Ethnic Origin; Sources, Data, and Methods; The Impact of Immigration on Household Sizes and Components, 1850-1900; The Impact of Immigration on Household Types, 1850-1900; Immigration and Fertility Change in Western Massachusetts, 1850-1900; Nativity and Ethnic Differences in Marital Fertility in 1900; Childbearing Patterns and Fertility Limitations; Mortality Levels and Trends in Western Massachusetts, 1850-1900; Rethinking Demographic Change: Western Massachusetts as a Case Study.

Author : Daniel S. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135524357

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The First of Causes to Our Sex by Daniel S. Wright Pdf

The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered the marriage market. The movement has earned a place in U.S. women's history, but most research has focused on it as an urban phenomenon, and sought its significance in relation to the cause of women's rights or to the regulation of prostitution. This study explores the appeal of moral reform to rural women, who were the vast majority of its constituency, and sees it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and mobile society. It was led by Yankee women who were fired by Second Great Awakening revivals and supported by reformist clergy.

Author : Mark J. Stern
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438421162

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Society and Family Strategy by Mark J. Stern Pdf

Using one of the largest quantitative data bases ever compiled on a single representative community, Stern explains and substantiates the reasons for the decline of the fertility rate during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He integrates demographic and social history to determine the implications of this aspect of the modernization of America. Society and Family Strategy describes the impact of capitalism, and changing class and ethnic structure on family economy, life cycle, and ideology. The author evaluates recent studies by social historians on the family, social class, and ethnicity in light of the Erie County experience, examines theories of social and cultural change, and proposes a non-evolutionary model of their relationship.

Author : Alfred F. Young
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679761853

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Masquerade by Alfred F. Young Pdf

In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.

Author : Michael R. Haines,Richard H. Steckel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521496667

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A Population History of North America by Michael R. Haines,Richard H. Steckel Pdf

Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowlegeable information in a non-technical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813914205

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The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

Allan Kulikoff's provocative new book traces the rural origins and growth of capitalism in America, challenging earlier scholarship and charting a new course for future studies in history and economics. Kulikoff argues that long before the explosive growth of cities and big factories, capitalism in the countryside changed our society- the ties between men and women, the relations between different social classes, the rhetoric of the yeomanry, slave migration, and frontier settlement. He challenges the received wisdom that associates the birth of capitalism wholly with New York, Philadelphia, and Boston and show how studying the critical market forces at play in farm and village illuminates the defining role of the yeomen class in the origins of capitalism.

Author : Rebecca Greene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135818913

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History of Medicine by Rebecca Greene Pdf

In this comprehensive and stimulating volume, the history of medicine is approached from a variety of perspectives to develop a well-rounded, objective overview. Historians examine the effects of society on medicine and of medicine on society and trace transformations in the the thought and practices of the medical and allied professions. History of Medicine explores the practice and philosophy of medicine--as it existed in ancient Greece and the Middle Ages, shedding light on the religion, politics, and social attitudes of those periods and as it existed until very recently in the United States. This highly readable book provides a wealth of information on the history of several significant social movements in which the medical profession has played a dominant role in influencing family life and values, including the dispensation of knowledge about birth control, women’s access to abortion, and the advent of pediatric medicine and the well baby movement. Chapters also examine the failure of the medical profession to consider the historical context of diseases and treatments in understanding diseases as they exist today and the conflict between doctors and professional historians as to the accuracy and importance of the existing history of medicine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015010653791

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Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521629853

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Escape from Poverty by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Pdf

Escape from Poverty addresses the recent increase of child poverty within the USA and suggests specific modes of change.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135583477

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Encyclopedia of Social History by Peter N. Stearns Pdf

A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per

Author : Herbert S. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015982

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A Population History of the United States by Herbert S. Klein Pdf

The first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. From the origin and distribution of the Native Americans to late twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality, this updated edition incorporates recent research, including data from the 2010 census. In this definitive study, Klein explores regional patterns of fertility and mortality, trends in births, deaths and international and internal migrations, comparing them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality rates on the population structure of the late-twentieth century is explained, while the more recent urbanisation and rise of suburbia are examined within the context of new massive international migrations on North American society.

Author : K. Warner Schaie, PhD,Glen Elder, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826197443

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Historical Influences on Lives and Aging by K. Warner Schaie, PhD,Glen Elder, PhD Pdf

This book focuses on the ways in which the life course of individuals is affected by the historical contexts in which they live. Editors Schaie and Elder, along with over twenty-five contributors, explore how historical events of varying degrees such as immigration, war, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status can affect the immediate and long-term life course.