Sources for U.S. History: Nineteenth-Century Communities (Sources of History)
Cambridge University Press, 1/30/2003
EAN 9780521531368, ISBN10: 0521531365
Paperback, 578 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 3.7 cm
Language: English
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 As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual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.
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.