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Fatal Years : Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America /
Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1991]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fatal Years : |b Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America / |c Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- |t PREFACE -- |t ONE. THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL CONTEXT OF CHILD MORTALITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- |t TWO. NEW ESTIMATES OF CHILD MORTALITY DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- |t THREE. DIFFERENCES IN CHILD MORTALITY AMONG SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND RESIDENTIAL GROUPS -- |t FOUR. DISTINGUISHING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF VARIOUS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND RESIDENTIAL FACTORS -- |t FIVE. AMERICAN CHILD MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- |t SIX. YESTERDAY AND TODAY: RESTATEMENT OF A MAIN THEME -- |t APPENDIX A. ASSIGNING INCOME AND UNEMPLOYMENT ESTIMATES TO INDIVIDUALS IN THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1900 UNITED STATES CENSUS -- |t APPENDIX B. THE STATE EARNINGS INDEX -- |t APPENDIX C. THE MORTALITY INDEX -- |t NOTES -- |t REFERENCES -- |t INDEX BY AUTHOR. |
| 520 | |a Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five. Preston and Haines challenge accepted opinion to show that losses in privileged social groups were as appalling as those among lower classes. Improvements came only with better knowledge about infectious diseases and greater public efforts to limit their spread. The authors look at a wide range of topics, including differences in mortality in urban versus rural areas and the differences in child mortality among various immigration groups. "Fatal Years is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of child mortality in the United States at the turn of the century. The new data and its analysis force everyone to reconsider previous work and statements about U.S. mortality in that period. The book will quickly become a standard in the field."--Maris A. Vinovskis, University of MichiganOriginally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. | ||
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