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基本説明
This study tells the tangled story of how the census took shape over the early decades of its existence, developing from a simple counting of households during the Napoleonic Wars into a centralized undertaking that involved the governmental and intellectual luminaries of Victorian Britain.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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