Sources for U.S. History: Nineteenth-Century Co. Stephens<|

Sources for U.S. HistoryNineteenth-Century Communities\nAuthor(s): W. B. Stephens\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521531368, 978-0521531368\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century [url] communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some indivi.