Fatal Years - Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Contents are tight and clean”
- ISBN
- 9780691042688
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691042683
ISBN-13
9780691042688
eBay Product ID (ePID)
354931
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Fatal Years : Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Language
English
Subject
Children's Studies, United States / 20th Century
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
90-045129
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
304.6/4/083
Synopsis
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 Michigan Originally 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.
LC Classification Number
HB1323.C52U655 1991
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