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.
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Immigrant and Native Families represents a solid contribution to the historical demography of the United States and to understanding the effect of the late nineteenth-century European (and French-Canadian) migration to the United States. * Contemporary Sociology * It merits attention from demographers both for the method used and the clarity of exposition. * Population Studies: A Journal of Demography * ...it provides a gold-mine of information for persons with an interest in the Western Massachusetts cities in the nineteenth century, and on various ethnic groups which migrated to America during that time period. * Historical Journal of Massachusetts * ...it provides a gold-mine of information for persons with an interest in the Western Massachusetts cities in the nineteenth century, and on various ethnic groups which migrated to America during that time period. * Historical Journal of Massachusetts * Immigrant and Native Families represents a solid contribution to the historical demography of the United States and to understanding the effect of the late nineteenth-century European (and French-Canadian) migration to the United States. * Contemporary Sociology * It merits attention from demographers both for the method used and the clarity of exposition. * Population Studies: A Journal of Demography *
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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978-0-8191-9287-5 (9780819192875)
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Hilda H. Golden is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
