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Informationen zum Autor The author, Dr. David Ward, is a physicist, educator, home-school parent, and entrepreneur. He received his PhD from MIT and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has publications in Nature, Physical Review Letters, and the Physics Teacher, to name a few. The characters in "Sarah and Sam Save the School with Even Numbers," are based on characters from the martian mathematics curriculum used by homeschoolers. He originally developed the curriculum for his own children, but it is now available to the public at MartianMathematics.com. Klappentext David Ward examines the geographical relationship between migrants and the inner city and the creation of slums and ghettos. Zusammenfassung This book examines, from an explicitly geographic perspective, the relationships between migrants and the inner city during the period of mass immigration to the United States from about 1840 until the introduction of immigration restriction in 1923–4. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. The slum, the ghetto and the inner city; Part I. The Relationships Formulated: 2. The slums discovered: 1840-1875; 3. The slums defined: 1875-1900; 4. From slum to ghetto: 1900-1925; 5. Ethnicity and assimilation; 6. Ethnicity and industrialisation; Notes; Index.
