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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

Detalles del artículo

• Páginas : 284
• Editorial : Palgrave MacM
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 06/09/2011
• ISBN: 9780230119376
• Encuadernación : Cartoné
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• País de Publicación : Reino Unido (INGLATERRA)