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Knights, Peter Roger was born on May 8, 1938 in Melrose, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Brownbill and Ruth Mary-Doris (Rother) Knights.
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Plain People of Boston, 1830-60: A Study in City Growth (The Urban Life in America)
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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
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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 states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogies--Peter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds of small New England towns but also (for those who left) onward from Boston. He determined changes in their occupations and wealth and after they arrived in Boston, the fates of their marriages, their production of children, and--in all but seventy cases--their deaths and the causes thereof. The result is a comprehensive quantitative study of important aspects of the lives of what are probably the largest sample population groups for any North American community.
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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians 1st Printing edition by Knights, Peter R. (1991) Hardcover
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The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth (The Urban Life in America)
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Peter Roger Knights
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Peter Roger Knights, American History educator. Research grantee National Endowment for Humanities, 1972-1973, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, 1981-1983, 83-84, 87-88, York University, 1980-1981, 90-91, 91-92; National Defense Education Act fellow, 1960-1962, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral fellow, 1968-1969, Canada Council leave fellow, 1976-1977, Fulbright scholar, West Germany, 1959-1960.
Education
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955-1957; Bachelor in Liberal Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1959; postgraduate, Cornell Univercity, 1960-1962; Master of Arts in Journalism & Doctor of Philosophy in the United States History, University of Wisconsin, 1965, 69.
Career
Assistant professor journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969-1971; associate professor of history, York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada, 1971-1993; professor of history, York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada, 1994-1995.
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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
(This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives ...)
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The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth (The Urban Life in America)
(We sell Rare, out-of-print, uncommon, & used BOOKS, PRINT...)
- The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860
- Plain People of Boston, 1830-60: A Study in City Growth (The Urban Life in America)
- Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians 1st Printing edition by Knights, Peter R. (1991) Hardcover
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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
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Member Organisation American Historians, New England History Genealogical Society, Urban HistoryAssn., Social Science History Association, Economics History Association, Society for History of Technology, Massachusetts History Society (correspondent).
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American