Yankee Destinies

The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-century Bostonians

• Author(s): Peter R. Knights,
• Publisher: UNC Press Books
• Pages: 281
• ISBN_10: 0807819697
  ISBN_13: 9780807819692
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General , Biography & Autobiography / General ,

Description:... 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 vi