Preface
Introduction: The American variations, 1900 to 2000
How America expanded education and why it mattered
Where Americans came from : race, immigration, and ancestry / with Aliya Saperstein
How Americans lived : families and life courses in flux / with Jon Stiles
How Americans worked : new workers, new jobs, and new differences
What Americans had : differences in living standards / with Jon Stiles
Where Americans lived : the redrawing of America's social geography / with Jon Stiles
How Americans prayed : religious diversity and change
When Americans disagreed : cultural fragmentation and conflict
Conclusion: the direction of Americans' differences
Appendix A: Combining parametric and nonparametric regressions to study how trends differ among subpopulations
Appendix B: Income differences or income ratios?
Appendix C: Procedures and data for the fragmentation analysis in chapter 9 / by Jane Zavisca.
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Century of difference : how America changed in the last one hundred years by Claude S. Fischer. ISBN 9780871543523. Published by Russell Sage Foundation in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
