Donald H Parkerson

Biographic Data

ID1481564
NAMEDonald H Parkerson
GIVEN NAMESDonald H
FAMILY NAMEParkerson
SIGNATUREPARKERSON D H
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX2

  • Transitions in American Education

    Chandra Muller, Donald H Parkerson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Sowing the American Dream

    Donald H Parkerson, Donald Parkerson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    David Blanke's Sowing the American Dream is a carefully researched analysis of the origins of the “consumer culture” in the rural Midwest. Blanke has contributed to our understanding of the emergence of capitalism by focusing on the rural consumers who drove the economy during the nineteenth century. The book actually has two major parts. The first focuses on the development of a “rural commercial ethos” during a period of extraordinary economic …

  • The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Period

    Frederick Kaufman, Julie M Walsh et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

    The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Period: Creating a Conformed Citizenry. By Julie M. Walsh. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. Pp. xi, 288. $64.00.) The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. By Donald H. Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson. (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 178. Illustrations, figures, tables. $79.95.) Because schools have tended in the past to cu…

  • The Agricultural Transition in New York State

    Donald B Marti, Donald H Parkerson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The Agricultural Transition in New York State: Markets and Migration in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. By Donald H. Parkerson. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995. xiv, 196 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-8138-2492-3.) Get access Donald B. Marti Donald B. Marti Indiana University, South Bend, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages …

  • Fewer Children of Greater Spiritual Quality”

    Open AccessDonald H Parkerson, Donald Parkerson et al.ARTICLESocial Science History1988References: 27

    Over six decades ago, A. M. Carr-Sanders first identified the dramatic shift from a population regime of high mortality and high fertility before 1750 to one of low mortality and low fertility after 1900 (Carr-Sanders, 1925). Carr-Sanders had a simple explanation for these changes. Improved sanitation and advances in medicine had lowered mortality while an increase in the standard of living had triggered a temporary increase in fertility. As tech…

  • Fewer Children of Greater Spiritual Quality

    Donald H Parkerson, Donald Parkerson et al.ARTICLESocial Science History1988Cited by: 3

  • How mobile were nineteenth-century Americans

    Donald H Parkerson, Donald ParkersonARTICLEHistorical Methods A Journal of…1982Cited by: 9References: 5

    This study is concerned with the extent of internal migration in the United States in the nineteenth century. The author first uses 1855 New York data to develop a method of estimating persistence of residence in one location. A process of research synthesis is then applied to investigate the level of error in record-linkage estimates of persistence by comparing them with more precise estimates based on duration of residence. The findings suggest…