Bibliography of American Demographic History - (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History) by David R Gerhan & Jacquelyn Miller (Hardcover)

About the Book

A companion to the ALA-award-winning Retrospective Bibliography of American Demographic History (1989), this volume includes literature on American demographic history published from 1984 to 1994. It covers such topics as marriage and fertility; health, sickness, and mortality; immigration, settlement, and cultural patterns; and family and its structures, roles and values (including both gender and sexuality issues). It also cites works showing the broad intersections between population matters and such economic, political, and social phenomena as war, oppression, government policy, elections, labor stereotype, discrimination, and cross-cultural contact or relations.

The bibliography organizes and describes citations to the rich historical literature on the ordinary life experiences of Americans, such as marriage, childbearing, health, migration, and ethnicity, and how these fundamental phenomena have been interconnected with the events of headline history. The book provides multiple points of access, through the detailed contents and through indexes of place, ethnicity, and topic.

Book Synopsis

Organizes and describes works from the rich historical literature on ordinary life experiencesÑmarriage, family, migrationÑand how they have interconnected with events of headline history.

Review Quotes

?It should find a place on the reference shelves of most public and academic libraries.?-RQ

?Sociology, political science, geography, and economics...are among the professional disciplines amply represented in the collection. For anyone concerned with virtually any aspect of America's population, this will be an indispensable volume.?-ARBA

"It should find a place on the reference shelves of most public and academic libraries."-RQ

"Sociology, political science, geography, and economics...are among the professional disciplines amply represented in the collection. For anyone concerned with virtually any aspect of America's population, this will be an indispensable volume."-ARBA

About the Author

DAVID R. GERHAN is Professor and Head of Public Services and Reference at Union College Library. He is joint author of the Retrospective Bibliography of American Demographic History (Greenwood, 1989), winner of the American Library Association's Best Bibliographies in History award for 1990.