Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians

by Peter R. Knights

This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical" Bostonians.

Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807819697
• ISBN13: 9780807819692
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"