A Cultural History of the British Census
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A Cultural History of the British Census

Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century

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eBook - PDF

A Cultural History of the British Census

Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century

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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.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230337602

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. A Cultural History of the British Census
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Envisioning the Multitude
  7. 1 “A National Undertaking”: Taking the Census 15 The Origins of the Census
  8. 2 The Census and Surplus
  9. 3 The Census and Representation
  10. 4 Urban Growth, Urban Problems, and the Census
  11. 5 Marriage, the Family, and the Nation
  12. 6 “Sprung from Ourselves”: Counting Race at Home and in the Colonies
  13. 7 Challenges and Alternatives to the Census
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index