Social Forces in American History

The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia

Social Forces

This is an attractive little volume of two hundred and twenty-six pages, neatly bound and printed upon excellent paper with wide margins and clear type. It is a literary mosaic made up of twenty-five editorials appearing in The Survey in 1907 and 1908. These more or less disconnected bits of expression upon social phenomena in general are put together with so much skill and delicacy of workmans...

Immigration in American Economic History.

The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US...

History of American pediatrics

adventures in the South Seas as "Voyager, Monster-hunter and Amoroso". Lyte makes the most of the comic possibilities of the pursuit of his hero by the voracious middle-aged queen Purea; nor does he forget his English mistress Miss B--n. As the subtitle suggests, Banks's early travels loom much larger in this book than the long afternoon of correspondence and power as President of the Royal Soc...

Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history

But Parke, as medical officer, was fighting a losing battle. Attention to hygiene and the distribution of quinine tablets did nothing to prevent most members of the expedition-including Parke and Stanley-falling ill on several occasions. Stanley was close to death at one stage, while Parke's companion, Major Jameson, died of blackwater fever. Deaths were even more frequent among the African bea...