Margo Anderson

A Population History of North America

1. Introduction Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel 2. Population history of North American Indians Russell Thornton 3. Patterns of disease in early North American populations Douglas H. Ubelaker 4. The population of New France and Quebec 1608-1790 Hubert Charbonneau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Jacques Legare 5. The white population of the colonial United States 1607-1790 Hank Gemery 6. The African-American population of the Colonial United States Lorena Walsh 7. The population of Mexico from its origins to the Revolution of 1910 Robert McCaa 8. The White Population of the United States, 1790-1920 Michael R. Haines 9. Canada in the nineteenth century Marvin McInnis 10. The African-American population of the United States, 1790-1920 Richard H. Steckel 11. A population history of the Caribbean Stanley L. Engerman 12. Canada in the twentieth century Marvin McInnis 13. Mexicos demographic expansion: 1920 to 1990 Zadia Feliciano 14. The population of the United States since 1920 Richard Easterlin 15. Concluding comments Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

The Social survey in historical perspective 1880-1940

List of figures List of tables List of maps Notes on contributors Preface 1. The social survey in historical perspective Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sylar 2. The social survey in social perspective, 1830-1930 Eileen Janes Yeo 3. Charles Booths survey of Life and Labour of the People in London 1889-1903 Kevin Bales 4. Hull-House Maps and Papers: social science as womens work in the 1890s Kathryn Kish Sylar 5. The place of social investigation, social theory and social work in the approach to late Victorian and Edwardian social problems: the case of Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet Jane Lewis 6. W. E. B. Du Bois as a social investigator: The Philadelphia Negro 1899 Martin Bulmer 7. Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley E. P. Hennock 8. The part in relation to the whole: how to generalise? The prehistory of representative sampling Alain Desrosieres 9. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Social Survey Movement: a sociological road not taken Steven R. Cohen 10. The world of the academic quantifiers: the Columbia University family and its connections Stephen P. Turner 11. The decline of The Social Survey Movement and the rise of American empirical sociology Martin Bulmer 12. The social survey in Germany before 1933 Irmela Gorges 13. Anglo-American contacts in the development of research methods before 1945 Jennifer Platt 14. The social survey in historical perspective: a governmental perspective Roger Davidson 15. The dangers of castle building - surveying the social survey Seth Koven Index.

To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy

Controversy and litigation surround the plan to use dual-systems estimation and sampling for the U.S. 2000 census. This article analyzes this conflict in terms of the history and technical development of the census, and attempts to create a basis for its resolution.

Censuses: History and Methods

A census is a complete count of a population, generally a nation, conducted by government, as of a fixed date. The periodic, national population census became a common function of Western governments around 1800 and is now routine throughout the world. Government agencies contact households to provide information for each member on a small number of questions such as age, sex, relationship to head. The agency tabulates responses and publishes the results. Data serve a variety of functions, including political apportionment, program planning, funds allocation, marketing and forecasting analyses. Censuses are expensive, logistically and technologically complex public activities, and serve to focus public attention on demographic patterns and change.

Planning the future in the context of the past

The current rules concerning residence that are applied in the U.S. decennial census are reviewed and recommendations for changes in the 1990 census are considered. The emphasis is on ways to reduce the undercount without adversely affecting the need for continuity in the type of data collected. (ANNOTATION)

The Census and the Federal Statistical System: Historical Perspectives

This article provides an overview of one major platform of the federal statistical system, the census. It briefly describes the origin and structure of the current diverse and decentralized federal statistical system and then describes the place of the census and the Census Bureau in the system. It treats the census in the context of the demographic and political history of the nation and discusses how the demographic and political history of the nation both has fostered and complicated the development of the system.

Census 2000 and the politics of census taking

Airway inflammation leads to secretion of abnormal mucous glycoprotein and ciliary injury. To investigate the possible usefulness of carbocisteine against airway inflammation and events related to it, we conducted a study in SO2-exposed rats of the effects of carbocisteine and ambroxol, as an active control drug, on components of mucous glycoprotein (fucose, sialic acid and protein) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF); on infiltration and activation of inflammatory cells in BALF; on tracheal and bronchial-ciliary lesions; and on cAMP levels in tracheal and alveolar tissues. Carbocisteine inhibited or improved all SO2-induced changes tested, and dosages of 125 and 250 mg/kg b.i.d. reduced fucose, sialic acid and protein contents, inflammatory cells (as markers of inflammation), free radicals, and elastase activity in BALF, and suppressed the development of ciliary lesions of the tracheal and bronchial mucosa, while ambroxol (10 mg/kg b.i.d.) showed no such effects. In addition, carbocisteine improved cAMP levels in the tracheal and alveolar tissues. These results indicate that carbocisteine is able to prevent the development of inflammation-related respiratory disease in this rat model, and that this remission of airway inflammation may be associated with carbocisteine-induced normalization of cAMP levels in tracheal and alveolar tissues as well as with its mucoregulant and anti-inflammatory effects. In conclusion, carbocisteine has a unique mucoregulant action and inhibits SO2-induced airway inflammation in a manner different from that of ambroxol.

Biodemography and vital statistics

On March 3, 1863, Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts rose in the Senate chamber to, as he told his colleagues, “take up a bill...to incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.” He read two short paragraphs concerning membership and the obligation of the Academy to “whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art.” The Senate passed the bill by voice vote, and a few hours later, the House passed it without comment. Later that evening, President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law. In the century and a half since 1863, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has grown from a small band of 50 charter members—each of whom was specified in the founding legislation—to an organization of more than 2,500 national members and foreign associates. In 1916, the Academy created the National Research Council, which today recruits thousands of specialists each year from the scientific and technological communities to participate in the Academys advisory work. The establishment of the National Academy of Engineering in 1964 and the Institute of Medicine in 1970 resulted in a multifaceted institution that investigates issues ranging widely across the sciences, technology, and health. The charter members of the Academy, who met for the first time on April 22, 1863, in the chapel at New York University, scarcely could have envisioned what their fledgling organization would become. To celebrate the Academy’s sesquicentennial, the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences, with additional support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, held a meeting in Washington, DC, on October 16–18, 2013, entitled “The National Academy of Sciences at 150: Celebrating Service to the Nation.” The meeting began the evening of October 16 with the … [↵][1]1E-mail: solson{at}comcast.net. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1

Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie (review)

cases support Benton’s basic theme that “formally plural legal orders were transformed into state-dominated legal orders” by the end of the nineteenth century (209). Given the importance that Benton gives to the concept of an emerging global interstate order, it is surprising that she does not give more consideration to the beginnings of “international law.” Her approach would be well suited to it; speciac legal contestations played an important role in deaning the nature and boundaries of the modern state. One can hope that Benton has left this as an issue for a later study. This study makes effective use of anthropological, legal, and archival sources, blending the needs of precision and detail in complex case studies with a clear statement of the broader implications of the analysis. Benton effectively shows “the importance of demonstrating the interconnections between small conoicts in particular historical settings and the revision of ‘master narratives’ about global change” (28). All who are interested in the “master narratives” of the development of the modern state, modern political society, and the global state system should and this book at least useful, if not essential.