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Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Contributors:
By (Author) Samuel H. Preston
By (author) Michael R. Haines
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
304.64
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
290
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
482g
Description
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
