A cultural history of the British census: envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century

The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census. KATHRIN LEVITAN Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA. INDICE: 'A National Undertaking': Taking the Census - The Census and Surplus - The Census and Political Representation - Urban Growth, Urban Problems, and the Census - Marriage, the Family, and the Nation - 'Sprung from Ourselves:' Counting Race at Home and in the Colonies' - Challenges and Alternatives to the Census

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11937-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 06/09/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés