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Auteur(s) : Levitan, Kathrin (1977-....)
Titre(s) : A cultural history of the British census [Texte imprimé] : envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century / Kathrin Levitan
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Description matérielle : xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Lien à la collection : Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index
"The British census plays an unquestioned role in governance today, and the recent
digitization of 19th-century census data has allowed millions of amateur and professional
researchers to visualize their national and familial past. 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. Along the way, the census intertwined with the pressing questions of the
day, including Malthusianism, industrialization, political representation, Irish immigration,
women's employment, reproduction, and empire. 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.
It shows that the act of describing British society in statistical terms was also
an act of contestation"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Recensement -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Conditions sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230119376 (hardback). - ISBN 0230119379 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425778139
Notice n° :
FRBNF42577813
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