Patricia A Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1450895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON P A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peopling the North American City
Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal through the eyes of a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis
People of the Bays and Headlands
Family Contexts of Fertility and Infant Survival in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
In the cohort of 4000 infants born in Montreal in 1859, the cultural context showed a powerful influence on infant mortality: more French Canadian infants died in their first year than Protestant or Irish Catholic. Socio-economic status shows no effect on infant mortality, although in each cultural community the wealthy had a higher birth rate than the poor. A higher birth rate to French Canadian mothers can be attributed entirely to the larger n…
Family Contexts of Fertility and Infant Survival in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
In the cohort of 4000 infants born in Montreal in 1859, the cultural context showed a powerful influence on infant mortality: more French Canadian infants died in their first year than Protestant or Irish Catholic. Socio-economic status shows no effect on infant mortality, although in each cultural community the wealthy had a higher birth rate than the poor. A higher birth rate to French Canadian mothers can be attributed entirely to the larger n…
Family Contexts of Fertility and Infant Survival in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
In the cohort of 4000 infants born in Montreal in 1859, the cultural context showed a powerful influence on infant mortality: more French Canadian infants died in their first year than Protestant or Irish Catholic. Socio-economic status shows no effect on infant mortality, although in each cultural community the wealthy had a higher birth rate than the poor. A higher birth rate to French Canadian mothers can be attributed entirely to the larger n…
People of the Bays and Headlands
Peopling the North American City
Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal through the eyes of a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis
Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Appalachian Studies and Mathematics (1 work) · Birth rate (1 work) · Breastfeeding (1 work) · Cohort (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work) · Fertility (1 work) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 work)