Peter R Knights
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R Knights |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | Knights |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHTS P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as typical Bostonians. Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty…
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850–1880
This ends the lesson. I certify that I have done the best. If I had a chance to do it again I could do it better but as I never shall ask for it I am entirely out of the Road of improvement. —George B. Randlette, enumerator of District 150, 1880 federal census of Maine, in a note appended to his returns Few paid-up readers of this journal will deny the importance, as a historical source, of the U.S. manuscript population censuses, particularly th…
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880
Peter R. Knights, Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880, Social Science History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 517-526
Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880
Journal Article Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840–1880. By Michael H. Frisch. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. ix + 301 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access Peter R. Knights Peter R. Knights York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, March 1973, Pages…
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
The Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
Journal Article The Plain People of Boston, 1830–1860: A Study in City Growth. By Peter R. Knights. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xx + 204 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, afterword, and index. $7.95.) Get access Howard P. Chudacoff Howard P. Chudacoff Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 416–41…
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Americans have long been a restless, migratory people, a fact which has left a deep impression on our national folklore if not yet on the writing of American history. Though it had earlier antecedents, the faith in spatial mobility as the key to virtue and success came into full flower in the nineteenth century. With an open continent beckoning…
A Tower in Babel: "A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Vol. I: "To 1933
The Universal Postal Union: Coordinator of the International Mails
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Americans have long been a restless, migratory people, a fact which has left a deep impression on our national folklore if not yet on the writing of American history. Though it had earlier antecedents, the faith in spatial mobility as the key to virtue and success came into full flower in the nineteenth century. With an open continent beckoning…
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850–1880
This ends the lesson. I certify that I have done the best. If I had a chance to do it again I could do it better but as I never shall ask for it I am entirely out of the Road of improvement. —George B. Randlette, enumerator of District 150, 1880 federal census of Maine, in a note appended to his returns Few paid-up readers of this journal will deny the importance, as a historical source, of the U.S. manuscript population censuses, particularly th…
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880
Peter R. Knights, Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880, Social Science History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 517-526
The Universal Postal Union: Coordinator of the International Mails
A Tower in Babel: "A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Vol. I: "To 1933
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Americans have long been a restless, migratory people, a fact which has left a deep impression on our national folklore if not yet on the writing of American history. Though it had earlier antecedents, the faith in spatial mobility as the key to virtue and success came into full flower in the nineteenth century. With an open continent beckoning…
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
Journal Article The Plain People of Boston, 1830–1860: A Study in City Growth. By Peter R. Knights. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xx + 204 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, afterword, and index. $7.95.) Get access Howard P. Chudacoff Howard P. Chudacoff Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 416–41…
Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880
Journal Article Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840–1880. By Michael H. Frisch. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. ix + 301 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access Peter R. Knights Peter R. Knights York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, March 1973, Pages…
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
The Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850–1880
This ends the lesson. I certify that I have done the best. If I had a chance to do it again I could do it better but as I never shall ask for it I am entirely out of the Road of improvement. —George B. Randlette, enumerator of District 150, 1880 federal census of Maine, in a note appended to his returns Few paid-up readers of this journal will deny the importance, as a historical source, of the U.S. manuscript population censuses, particularly th…
Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880
Peter R. Knights, Potholes in the Road of Improvement? Estimating Census Underenumeration by Longitudinal Tracing: U.S. Censuses, 1850-1880, Social Science History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 517-526
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as typical Bostonians. Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty…
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
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