Lives in Transition
Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2015
396 pages
978-0-7735-9668-9 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of mobility, inequality, and the unfolding of lives on three continents during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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05/2015
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Persons
Peter Baskerville holds a research chair in modern western Canadian history at the University of Alberta and is the author of A Silent Revolution?: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930. Kris Inwood is professor in the Departments of Economics and of History at the University of Guelph.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- PART ONE: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS
- 2 A Test of Character: A Case Study of Male Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land, 1826-38
- 3 Sickness and Death on Convict Voyages to Australia
- 4 Wanderlust: The Multiple Migrations of New Zealand's Scots, 1840-1920
- PART TWO: MOBILITY IN THE RURAL WORLD
- 5 Lives in Motion: Revisiting the "Agricultural Ladder" in 1860s Ontario, A Study of Linked Microdata
- 6 Change amid Continuity in Canadian Work Patterns during the 1870s
- 7 Wilson Benson Revisited: Movement and Persistence in Rural Perth County, Ontario, 1871-81
- 8 Revisiting Wealth on the American Frontier: Farm Growth, Inequality, and Social Persistence in Kansas, 1875-1940
- PART THREE: MOBILITY IN THE URBAN WORLD
- 9 Ladders of Mobility in a Fast-Growing Industrial City: Two by Two and Twenty Years Later
- 10 Moving around the City: Residential and Economic Mobility in Chicago, 1925-30
- PART FOUR: ETHNICITY AND WAR
- 11 Genes, Class, or Culture? French-English Height Differences in Canada
- 12 Aboriginal and Mixed-Race Men in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-18
- 13 Tracing "The Trail of Infected Armies": Mobilizing for War, the Spread of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and the Case of the Polish Army Camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, 1917-19
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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