ABSTRACT

This title, first published in 1989, explores the population change in America during the 1800s by closely examining frontier settlement, urbanisation, and depopulation and emigration from rural areas of the north-eastern United States. Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860 will be of interest to students of history and human geography.

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|33 pages

Migration in Nineteenth Century America

chapter 3|57 pages

Methods and Materials of Study

chapter 4|44 pages

Migration Differentials

chapter 5|47 pages

Destinations and Differentials

chapter 6|6 pages

Conclusion