Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

Childhood Residential Mobility and Multiple Health Risks During Adolescence and Adulthood

“…AbuseEmotional (Did a parent or other adult in the household ever, sometimes, often, or very often[1] swear at you, insult you, or put you down?[2] act in a way that made you afraid that you…”

On the Move: Migration in an Italian Community, 1865–1921

“…At issue, in part, is the question of what impact industrialization and urbanization had on people's lives. Evidence has accumulated that population mobility was great in the past, and widely-held suppositions concerning the novelty of our contemporary "mobile society" have been cast in doubt (Thernstrom and Knights, 1970;Thernstrom, 1973). Thernstrom and Knights (1970: 31-32) have posed the question of whether nineteenth-century America was in fact a more geographically mobile society than nineteenth-century Europe.…”

The New York State Legislature: A Developmental Perspective: 1777-1846

“…This modernizing process also undermined the traditional mechanisms of control and stability-such as attachment to community and deference-and mobilized a growing and increasingly active electorate (Brown, 1972;Taylor, 1951;Berthoff, 1971;Miller, 1970;Thernstrom and Knights, 1971). Such explanations fail to resolve several critical questions.…”