In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent--and often up to 75 percent--of the residents in any... given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already... so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »