Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 808 g
Reihe: Sources of History
Nineteenth-Century Communities
Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 808 g
Reihe: Sources of History
ISBN: 978-0-521-53136-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.
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Author's preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Demography; 3. Ethnicity and race; 4. The land, settlement, and farming: I; 5. The land, settlement, and farming: II; 6. Religion; 7. Local government, politics, and organized labor; 8. Manufacturing, mining, and business activity; 9. Maritime activity, communications, and the fur trade; 10. Education; 11. Poverty, health, and crime; Index.
