Saturday, September 27, 2008
Status of 20 yos: 1. Single, alone 2. Single, boarding house 3. Single, with parent or older Head of Household, same surname 4. Single, boarding where head of HH has different surname 5. Married, no kids 6. Married with children 7. Widowed or alone, with children
posted by Lloyd at 8:15 PM
Citation - Household Structure on an American Frontier: Los Angeles, California, in 1850
- Author(s): Barbara Laslett
- Source: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Jul., 1975), pp. 109-128
- Published by: The University of Chicago Press
- Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2777056
Abstract Based on individual United States federal census schedules, this paper reports on the ways in which economic and demographic variables relate to different types of household organization in Los Angeles in 1850. While the findings confirm the results of other recent research that the nuclear family predominated in preindustrial societies, they also emphasize the need to focus on variation. Methodological problems of working with this kind of data are discussed, as are the implications of the results for the study of social change. Categories:
1. “no family” (15%)
2. “simple family” (33.1)
3. “simple family plus others” (21.3)
4. “extended family” (18.8) 5. “multiple family” (11.2)
posted by Lloyd at 6:09 PM
Friday, September 26, 2008
posted by Lloyd at 2:25 PM
Jane Turner Censer, "Southwestern Migration among North Carolina planter families: The Disposition to Migrate" JSH, 72 (Aug 1991), 407-426. Oakes, Ruling Race, 69.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Citation * From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration * Author(s): Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch and Cristina Szanton Blanc * Source: Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 48-63 * Published by: The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3317464 Abstract Contemporary immigrants can not be characterized as the "uprooted." Many are transmigrants, becoming firmly rooted in their new country but maintaining multiple linkages to their homeland. In the United States anthropologists are engaged in building a transnational anthropology and rethinking their data on immigration. Migration proves to be an important transnational process that reflects and contributes to the current political configurations of the emerging global economy. In this article we use our studies of migration from St. Vincent, Grenada, the Philippines, and Haiti to the U.S. to delineate some of the parameters of an ethnography of transnational migration and explore the reasons for and the implications of transnational migrations. We conclude that the transnational connections of immigrants provide a subtext of the public debates in the U.S. about the merits of immigration.
posted by Lloyd at 6:29 PM
Jeremy Adelman, Frontier Development: Land, Labor, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914. (1994) Donal Denoon, _Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere_ D.C.M. Platt and Guido Di Tella, _Argentina, Australia, and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965. (1985)
posted by Lloyd at 9:48 AM
Dr. Jalloh
"Africa and the Atlantic World, 1400-1860" Dr. Narrett
"British, French, and Spanish Colonization in North America, 1500-1850" Dr. Palmer
"British Colonization in Ireland and America, 1600-1700" Dr. Richmond
"Iberian Frontiers in the Americas, 1492-1950" Dr. Palmer
"Frontiers in South Africa and British North America, 1650-1900"
Goals and objectives The colloquium seeks to analyze and explain, through transatlantic contact, interchange, and development, the emergence of new, altered societies in the post-contact transatlantic world. We will examine not only the post-contact changes wrought on native societies, but also the development of new creolized settler societies that evolved particular characteristics as a result of contact with indigenous communities. In sum, as a result of transatlantic contacts and exchanges, all was changed as new societies buffeted by migration and colonization developed on both sides of the North and South Atlantic. To understand transatlantic history is to appreciate the origins and emergence of modern global societies. Examples of Readings Migration - Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America (New York, 1986).
- J.E. Inikori and S.L. Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Durham, 1992)
- John Thornton, Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (Cambridge,1992)
Colonization - Ciaran Brady and Raymond Gillespie, eds., Natives and Newcomers: Essays in the Making of Irish Colonial Society, 1543-1641 (Dublin, 1986)
- Mark Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, 3rd ed. (New York, 1998)
- Nicholas Canny, Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World, 1560-1800 (Baltimore, 1988)
- George Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History (Oxford, 1981)
- Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: the Peoples of Early America, 4th. ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982)
Comparative Frontiers - Richard Bartlett, The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890 (Oxford, 1974)
- Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange (Westport, CT, 1971)
- W. J. Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (New York, 1969)
- Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson, eds., The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared (New Haven, 1981)
- D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Vol. 1: Atlantic America, 1492-1800 (New Haven, 1986)
- Gregory Nobles, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (New York, 1997)
- Daniel J. Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (Chapel Hill, 1992)
- David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, 1992)
posted by Lloyd at 8:10 AM
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover) by Wendy Gamber (Author) No customer reviews yet. Be the first.
"A superb study. Gamber has identified a major lacuna in our historical understanding of nineteenth-century domesticity, women's work, family, and urban history, and filled it with rich detail and a nuanced treatment of class and ethnic differences." -- Angel Kwolek-Folland, University of Florida ======================== Review"Michael Young has done the unlikely: drawing new insights and rigorous comparisons from the well-trodden territory of movements for moral reform in the United States. Bearing Witness against Sin draws from abolitionism, temperance, and moral reform in the 1830s an enduring lesson about American social movements-about both their persistent religious foundations and the uneasy balance they need to maintain between interior moral reform and external political change. The mechanism for that conjunction in the 1830s was the public confession; but Young's findings go well beyond these three movements to the contemporary movements he briefly surveys at the end of the book and to the moral/political crisis of America today."--Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University (Sydney Tarrow ) "Young''s analysis and storyline are helpful, coherent, and persuasive in many ways. The book enhances our understanding of religious, political, and social events in antebellum America." (Charles Hambrick-Stowe American Historical Review ) "Young''s book is without question the best application of structuration theory to examine a substantive issue. . . . A substantial work, which should be of interest to scholars in social movements, political sociology, and the sociology of religion." (Brayden G. King Mobilization ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Description During the 1830s the United States experienced a wave of movements for social change over temperance, the abolition of slavery, anti-vice activism, and a host of other moral reforms. Michael Young argues for the first time in Bearing Witness against Sin that together they represented a distinctive new style of mobilization—one that prefigured contemporary forms of social protest by underscoring the role of national religious structures and cultural schemas. In this book, Young identifies a new strain of protest that challenged antebellum Americans to take personal responsibility for reforming social problems. In this period activists demanded that social problems like drinking and slaveholding be recognized as national sins unsurpassed in their evil and immorality. This newly awakened consciousness undergirded by a confessional style of protest, seized the American imagination and galvanized thousands of people. Such a phenomenon, Young argues, helps explain the lives of charismatic reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison and the Grimké sisters, among others. Marshalling lively historical materials, including letters and life histories of reformers, Bearing Witness against Sin is a revelatory account of how religion lay at the heart of social reform.  See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details - Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (February 1, 2007)
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posted by Lloyd at 12:35 PM
The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity (Hardcover) by Andro Linklater (Author)
From Publishers WeeklyThe focus of this unruly book is one of the unsung founders of the United States, Andrew Ellicott. Linklater (Measuring America) performs a real service in rescuing from near oblivion this surveyor and boundary commissioner who, for 35 years after 1785, laid down many of the borders that now demarcate the United States from Canada and state from state. In a time of difficult and dangerous travel, Ellicott seems to have been everywhere and to have interacted easily with people under Spanish and French rule as well as with Native Americans. Much of the layout of the nation's capital is also his legacy. His tale is told by Linklater with skill and energy, but the author overreaches. Rather than sticking with plats, borders and their surveyors, Linklater in effect relates the nation's entire history through the 19th century. After many others with more authority have attacked Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, he also takes it on, arguing, not without ingenuity, that the American frontier experience was not the freedom of the wilderness but the lines drawn in previously uncharted ground—around claims, properties, states, and the republic itself. Perhaps, but the case isn't adequately made here. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistLinklater's Measuring America (2002), a revealing history of the survey system that demarcates much American real estate, created an audience sure to be keen on this sequel. It explores how the international borders of the U.S. came to be, arguing against the renowned "frontier thesis" of historian Frederick Jackson Turner. That scholarly scaffolding does not lessen the narrative attraction of Linklater's story, which relates the career of Andrew Ellicott (1754–1820). If a boundary survey was needed in the 1780s and 1790s, he was the man to do it. Ellicott made his reputation by delineating the state lines of Pennsylvania, and George Washington tapped him to apply precision to Pierre L'Enfant's street plan for the capital. The Adams administration designated him to run the boundary between the U.S. and Spanish Florida. Easier said than done, this project took several years to accomplish, displayed Ellicott at his technical and patriotic best, and lets Linklater flesh out his contention that the establishment of formal borders encouraged democracy's development. An intelligent expression of national history within cartographic history. Taylor, Gilbert Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
posted by Lloyd at 12:14 PM
Monday, September 22, 2008
An Emigrant's Five Years in the Free States of America (by William Hancock: 1860) in LOC travel literature has close reading of Indianapolis emigration. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=02872/lhbtn02872.db&recNum=317&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_mhdn&filecode=lhbtn&next_filecode=lhbtn&prev_filecode=lhbtn&itemnum=26&ndocs=96
posted by Lloyd at 7:58 PM
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/RegistrationChoosePlan.aspx?returnurl=%2fSearchResultsV3.aspx
posted by Lloyd at 7:26 PM
New Albany, cholera, Greenville. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=th024/lhbtnth024.db&recNum=140&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_nqXG&filecode=lhbtn&next_filecode=lhbtn&prev_filecode=lhbtn&itemnum=2&ndocs=100
posted by Lloyd at 7:41 AM
The LOC has a full collection of travel narratives from the early republic. Hmmn. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html The Tyrone Power narrative: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/lhbtnbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbtn+1989a))
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