ISBN:
9780127220406
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (270 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War
DDC:
304.6/3/09744
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of fertility differentials and trends in Massachusetts from 1765 to 1860. The book provides useful insights into the nature of the development of Massachusetts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics covered in the text include analysis of the differentials and trends in white fertility ratios at the national, regional, and state levels; differentials and trends in mortality rates in Massachusetts; impact of land scarcity and the role of urbanization and industrializa
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Levels and Trends in Fertility in the United States before 1860; The Decline in Fertility in the United States before 1860; Fertility Levels and Trends in Massachusetts and the Other New England States before 1860; Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials; Conclusion; Chapter 2. Mortality Rates and Trends in Massachusetts before 1860; Mortality Rates in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
Description / Table of Contents:
Mortality Rates and Trends in Antebellum MassachusettsConclusion; Chapter 3. Marriage Patterns in Massachusetts; Age at Marriage in Massachusetts; Analysis of Births per Marriage among Massachusetts Communities; Chapter 4. Socioeconomic Characteristics of Antebellum Massachusetts; Population Changes; Urban Development; Economic Development; Educational Development; Chapter 5. Availability of Easily Accessible Land; Interstate Fertility Variations and the Land Availability Thesis; Fertility Differentials among Massachusetts Towns and Regions and the Land Availability Thesis
Description / Table of Contents:
The Relationship between Land Availability and Fertility at the Household LevelChapter 6. The Impact of Urban and Industrial Development on Fertility Differentials and Trends; Urbanization and Fertility Differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860; The Relationship between Measures of Urban and Industrial Development and Fertility Differentials among Massachusetts Towns in 1765, 1790, 1820, 1840, and 1860; Analysis of Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials at the Household Level; Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials and Trends
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7. Demographic and Social Explanations of Variations in the White Refined Fertility RatiosSex Ratio of the Population; Ethnic Composition of the Population; Religious Composition of the Population; The Relationship between the Levels of Education of the Population and Fertility Differentials; Chapter 8. Speculations on Modernization and the Fertility Decline in Antebellum America; Modernization and the Decline in Fertility; Modernization in America in the Late Eighteenth Century and the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; Levels and Trends in Education in Antebellum America
Description / Table of Contents:
Levels and Trends in Information Consumption in Antebellum AmericaChanges in the Occupational Structure of the American Economy; Changing Perception of the Role of the Individual as a Reformer and Shifts in Achievement Orientation; Changes in the Value and Cost of Children; Modernization and the Fertility Decline in Antebellum America; Chapter 9. Conclusion; The Experience of Nineteenth-Century America as a Model for Developing Countries Today?; APPENDIX A: The Use of Fertility Ratios as Indexes of Birth Rates; APPENDIX B: Reliability and Usefulness of Mortality Data
Description / Table of Contents:
APPENDIX C: Results of Regression Analysis of Interstate Fertility Differentials in the United States in 1850 and 1860
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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