Silvana Patriarca

Numbers and Nationhood

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Produktbeschreibung

Numbers and Nationhood explores the Italian inflection of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in society. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which informed the copious statistical literature produced between the 1820s, when statistical publications began to proliferate in the Italian states, and the 1870s, when a unified Italy entered a fully positivistic era. Her innovative study illuminates the relationship between the needs of an emerging nation and the uses to which statistics were put, generating a long-lasting image of Italy which nevertheless accentuated its internal territorial divisions. By examining the power of numerical representations, Numbers and Nationhood provides a fresh reading of the historiography of Risorgimento Italy and of positivism, bringing to the fore issues of science, ideology, and representation.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction: the history of statistics between state making and objectifications; 2. A science for 'civilized' countries: practitioners, audiences and theories of statistics, 1820s-1850s; 3. Statistical description: between epistemology and politics; 4. Making public numbers: official statistics in the pre-unification monarchies; 5. Building the nation's body: 'patriotic statistics' representation of Italy; 6. The identity of the Italians, or the ambiguities of moral statistics; 7. Representing the new nation (1861-1871); 8. A nation of Communes in a Europe of nationalities: the statistical Congress of Florence; Epilogue: measurable and unmeasurable things.

Numbers and Nationhood explores the role that statistics played in generating a national image of Italy in the nineteenth century. Silvana Patriarca's innovative study provides a fresh reading of Risorgimento Italy, bringing to the fore issues of science, ideology, and representation.

An innovative study of statistics in Risorgimento Italy, and their contribution to the national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780521462969
• ISBN-10: 0521462967
• Artikelnr.: 21824188

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the history of statistics between state making and
objectifications; 2. A science for 'civilized' countries: practitioners,
audiences and theories of statistics, 1820s-50s; 3. Statistical
description: between epistemology and politics; 4. Making public numbers:
official statistics in the pre-unification monarchies; 5. Building the
nation's body: 'patriotic statistics' representation of Italy; 6. The
identity of the Italians, or the ambiguities of moral statistics; 7.
Representing the new nation (1861-71); 8. A nation of Communes in a Europe
of nationalities: the statistical Congress of Florence; Epilogue:
measurable and unmeasurable things.