Children and Youth in America, Volume II: 1866-1932: Vol. 1 Parts 1-6; Vol. 2 Parts 7-8

by Robert H. E. Bremmer and Robert H. Bremner

Although the number of people under twenty years of age in the United States rose from 17 million in 1860 to 47.6 million in 1930, the percentage of them in the total population declined sharply during the same seventy years from 51 percent to 38 percent. This declining proportion of children and young people to adults did not lessen concern for their welfare. On the contrary, as they became relatively less numerous, the young became in a way more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674116127
• ISBN13: 9780674116122
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 1606 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.5" x 7.4" x 10.3"