Raymond L Cohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond L Cohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohn |
| SIGNATURE | COHN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Overseas Passenger Fares and Emigration from Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Mid-nineteenth-century German immigrants who settled in the United States and other faraway destinations faced the formidable hurdle of crossing an ocean and coming up with the resources to pay for it. Using new data from German emigrant newspapers we provide more concrete information on the fares to various international ports, and how they varied seasonally and by method of transport (sail or steam). We do not observe fares declining in the lat…
Mass Migration under Sail
The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States
The transition from sailing ship to steamship is analyzed for European immigrants arriving at New York City. Based on information taken from the U.S. Passenger Lists, new estimates of the timing and length of the transition are provided. Though the accepted model suggests the changeover from sail to steam could occur in only a few years, it actually took about 15 years in the Europe to New York immigrant trade. The slow transition is found to be …
Passenger Mortality on Antebellum Immigrant Ships
Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s
In 1855 the volume of immigration to the United States dropped precipitously, signaling the end of the first mass migration of Europeans. Although other work blames the decline on an economic depression, the outbreak of the Crimean War, or the improvement of conditions in Europe, this article argues that the rise of nativism was the initiating cause of the decline. This result is important because it affects our view of the factors that have cycl…
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922
Preface 1. Beginnings: indentured labor, slavery, and free migration Focus and scope of this study 2. Demands: from slavery to indentured labor The new imperial economy 3. Supplies: Africa China India Pacific Islands Japan Female Migrants 4. Voyages: Ships and regulations Routes and experiences Mortality and its causes Trends 5. Indentures: periods and destinations Costs, productivity, and profits The migrants' experience Remuneration and repatri…
A Comparative Analysis of European Immigrant Streams to the United States during the Early Mass Migration
Occupational Evidence on the Causes of Immigration to the United States, 1836-1853
Transatlantic U.S. Passenger Travel at the Dawn of the Steamship Era
The Occupations of English Immigrants to the United States, 1836–1853
This article examines the recent view that economic distress was not an important cause of English immigration before 1860. Demographic information is used to show that characteristics of males on suspect passenger lists (those that listed only laborers) matched those of laborers on other lists. Based on this result and other information, laborers appear to be the dominant group of immigrants. Support is thus provided for the view that distress w…
Fiscal policy in Germany during the Great Depression
Maritime Mortality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The determinants of individual immigrant mortality on sailing ships, 1836–1853
Deaths of Slaves in the Middle Passage
It is widely accepted by students of the slave trade that slave mortality during the Middle Passage fell between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first person to make the claim of declining mortality was Philip Curtin, who reopened research on slave mortality in his book The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census . Curtin examined a number of sources, and his conclusion was that “... there is a decreasing rate of loss over the eighteen…
Mortality on Immigrant Voyages to New York, 1836–1853
The first systematic estimates of mortality on immigrant ships are presented in the paper. From passenger lists of immigrant arrivals, a sample of 1077 ships that arrived at New York between 1836 and 1853 was obtained and analyzed. Immigrants died at a rate of about 10 per thousand boarded per month with a significantly higher rate for 1849. Mortality was found to vary by sex, port of origin, and season of arrival. No significant variation was fo…
The determinants of slave mortality rates on the middle passage
Antebellum regional incomes
Local Manufacturing in the Antebellum South and Midwest
It has been a long time since clichés like “cotton was king” have satisfied historians as an answer to the question of why the American South did not develop a manufacturing industry at least as vigorous as that of the Midwest in the antebellum years. Professor Cohn thinks that the South may well have done just that, and presents an analysis based on location theory that supports such a conclusion
Mortality on Immigrant Voyages to New York, 1836–1853
The first systematic estimates of mortality on immigrant ships are presented in the paper. From passenger lists of immigrant arrivals, a sample of 1077 ships that arrived at New York between 1836 and 1853 was obtained and analyzed. Immigrants died at a rate of about 10 per thousand boarded per month with a significantly higher rate for 1849. Mortality was found to vary by sex, port of origin, and season of arrival. No significant variation was fo…
The determinants of slave mortality rates on the middle passage
Deaths of Slaves in the Middle Passage
It is widely accepted by students of the slave trade that slave mortality during the Middle Passage fell between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first person to make the claim of declining mortality was Philip Curtin, who reopened research on slave mortality in his book The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census . Curtin examined a number of sources, and his conclusion was that “... there is a decreasing rate of loss over the eighteen…
The determinants of individual immigrant mortality on sailing ships, 1836–1853
Occupational Evidence on the Causes of Immigration to the United States, 1836-1853
The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States
The transition from sailing ship to steamship is analyzed for European immigrants arriving at New York City. Based on information taken from the U.S. Passenger Lists, new estimates of the timing and length of the transition are provided. Though the accepted model suggests the changeover from sail to steam could occur in only a few years, it actually took about 15 years in the Europe to New York immigrant trade. The slow transition is found to be …
The Occupations of English Immigrants to the United States, 1836–1853
This article examines the recent view that economic distress was not an important cause of English immigration before 1860. Demographic information is used to show that characteristics of males on suspect passenger lists (those that listed only laborers) matched those of laborers on other lists. Based on this result and other information, laborers appear to be the dominant group of immigrants. Support is thus provided for the view that distress w…
Maritime Mortality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Fiscal policy in Germany during the Great Depression
Antebellum regional incomes
Local Manufacturing in the Antebellum South and Midwest
It has been a long time since clichés like “cotton was king” have satisfied historians as an answer to the question of why the American South did not develop a manufacturing industry at least as vigorous as that of the Midwest in the antebellum years. Professor Cohn thinks that the South may well have done just that, and presents an analysis based on location theory that supports such a conclusion
Local Manufacturing in the Antebellum South and Midwest
It has been a long time since clichés like “cotton was king” have satisfied historians as an answer to the question of why the American South did not develop a manufacturing industry at least as vigorous as that of the Midwest in the antebellum years. Professor Cohn thinks that the South may well have done just that, and presents an analysis based on location theory that supports such a conclusion
Antebellum regional incomes
The determinants of slave mortality rates on the middle passage
Mortality on Immigrant Voyages to New York, 1836–1853
The first systematic estimates of mortality on immigrant ships are presented in the paper. From passenger lists of immigrant arrivals, a sample of 1077 ships that arrived at New York between 1836 and 1853 was obtained and analyzed. Immigrants died at a rate of about 10 per thousand boarded per month with a significantly higher rate for 1849. Mortality was found to vary by sex, port of origin, and season of arrival. No significant variation was fo…
Deaths of Slaves in the Middle Passage
It is widely accepted by students of the slave trade that slave mortality during the Middle Passage fell between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first person to make the claim of declining mortality was Philip Curtin, who reopened research on slave mortality in his book The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census . Curtin examined a number of sources, and his conclusion was that “... there is a decreasing rate of loss over the eighteen…
The determinants of individual immigrant mortality on sailing ships, 1836–1853
Maritime Mortality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Transatlantic U.S. Passenger Travel at the Dawn of the Steamship Era
The Occupations of English Immigrants to the United States, 1836–1853
This article examines the recent view that economic distress was not an important cause of English immigration before 1860. Demographic information is used to show that characteristics of males on suspect passenger lists (those that listed only laborers) matched those of laborers on other lists. Based on this result and other information, laborers appear to be the dominant group of immigrants. Support is thus provided for the view that distress w…
Fiscal policy in Germany during the Great Depression
A Comparative Analysis of European Immigrant Streams to the United States during the Early Mass Migration
Occupational Evidence on the Causes of Immigration to the United States, 1836-1853
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922
Preface 1. Beginnings: indentured labor, slavery, and free migration Focus and scope of this study 2. Demands: from slavery to indentured labor The new imperial economy 3. Supplies: Africa China India Pacific Islands Japan Female Migrants 4. Voyages: Ships and regulations Routes and experiences Mortality and its causes Trends 5. Indentures: periods and destinations Costs, productivity, and profits The migrants' experience Remuneration and repatri…
Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s
In 1855 the volume of immigration to the United States dropped precipitously, signaling the end of the first mass migration of Europeans. Although other work blames the decline on an economic depression, the outbreak of the Crimean War, or the improvement of conditions in Europe, this article argues that the rise of nativism was the initiating cause of the decline. This result is important because it affects our view of the factors that have cycl…
Passenger Mortality on Antebellum Immigrant Ships
The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States
The transition from sailing ship to steamship is analyzed for European immigrants arriving at New York City. Based on information taken from the U.S. Passenger Lists, new estimates of the timing and length of the transition are provided. Though the accepted model suggests the changeover from sail to steam could occur in only a few years, it actually took about 15 years in the Europe to New York immigrant trade. The slow transition is found to be …
Mass Migration under Sail
Overseas Passenger Fares and Emigration from Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Mid-nineteenth-century German immigrants who settled in the United States and other faraway destinations faced the formidable hurdle of crossing an ocean and coming up with the resources to pay for it. Using new data from German emigrant newspapers we provide more concrete information on the fares to various international ports, and how they varied seasonally and by method of transport (sail or steam). We do not observe fares declining in the lat…
Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · History (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · History (9 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works)