Fatal years: child mortality in late nineteenth-century america
Auteur :
Preston, Samuel H. / Haines, Michael R.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691631806
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 cm
Poids :
709 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 narr