Using a newly constructed individual-level dataset, we analyze the relative incarceration probabilities of native and foreign-born men between 1900 and 1930. We find that the foreign-born were less likely to be incarcerated than natives even after controlling for age and literacy. However, immigrants assimilated rapidly to the incarceration patterns of the native born. The likelihood that an im...

depressed marionette in the medical advertisement discussed by Dr Jordanova is brought back to life by a daily dose of Ludiomil. For the most part the analyses are compelling, even if at times the reader might want rather more evidence and slightly less speculation. The gendered nature of anatomizing crops up several times in the book, culminating in a section in the final chapter in which Dr J...

some times used their powers to achieve unjustifiable ends, at employers' or public's expense. But, although such excesses might illustrate the need for enlightened leadership or perhaps for some mild legal reforms, their conclusion on balance is that big labor was a necessary offset to big businesses. Knowing and agreeing to the outcome -big labor -in turn informs most histories of the evoluti...

growth studies were conducted for humanitarian purposes. Heights and weights of children were measured to provide evidence of poverty, malnutrition, disease, and labour abuse in an attempt to bring about social reforms. The emphasis on social comment is a great strength of this book. The author not only explains what was done and how it was done (details of the methodology are always given wher...

The smiling spleen is thus to be seen as a challenge to posterity, for it offers hints and nudges rather than lengthy sustained argument, and at times a certain cloudiness of expression hides the wisdom of the sage. It will stimulate controversy: not all, for example, will be convinced by the attempt, pp. 55-60, to defend Paracelsus against allegations of inconsistency, or, p. 139, to find Shak...

The lateral transport and degassing of carbon in riverine ecosystems is difficult to quantify on large spatial long temporal scales due the relatively poor representation processes many models. Here, we coupled a scale-adaptive hydrological model with Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model simulate key across Chesapeake Delaware Bay Watersheds from 1900 2015. Our results suggest that throughout this time...

Journal of Natural History Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713192031 Larval and early juvenile development in Paralomis granulosa (Jacquinot) (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Lithodidae), with emphasis on abdominal changes in megalopal and crab stages P. A. McLAUGHLIN a; K. Anger b; A. Kaffenber...

Multiproxy reconstructions of monthly and seasonal surface temperature fields for Europe back to 1500 show that the late 20th- and early 21st-century European climate is very likely (>95% confidence level) warmer than that of any time during the past 500 years. This agrees with findings for the entire Northern Hemisphere. European winter average temperatures during the period 1500 to 1900 were ...