Jean-Guy Prevost, Jean-Pierre Beaud

Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800-1945 (eBook, ePUB)

A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are able to present a truly original work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317321248
• Artikelnr.: 43480707

Autorenporträt

Jean-Guy Prevost, Jean-Pierre Beaud

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Percentages and the Emergence of Statistical Objectivity
Chapter 2 The Republic of Numbers: Robert Gourlay and the Art of the Statistical Account
Chapter 3 Adolphe Quetelet and the Expanded Reproduction of 'Statistism'
Chapter 4 Form as Content: The Establishment of National Statistical Systems
Chapter 5 Immigration and Population Growth: an American Statistical Controversy
Chapter 6 The Epitaph of Imperial Statistics
Chapter 7 Statistical Expertise and the Twilight of Liberal Italy
Chapter 8 Politics of the Sampling Revolution