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

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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.

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