A cultural history of the British census : envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century / Kathrin Levitan.

  • Levitan, Kathrin, 1977-
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical description

xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- "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 * Counting Race: the Census in Metropole and Colonies * Challenges and Alternatives to the Census.

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    History of Medicine
    EH.41.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9780230119376
  • 0230119379