Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

by Michael R. Haines and Samuel H. Preston

Book Overview

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 narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691042683
• ISBN13: 9780691042688
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"