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A cultural history of the British census : envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century
[NT 47261] Author:	LevitanKathrin, 1977-
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	New York
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2011
[NT 50960] Edition:	1st ed.
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xii, 272 p.)ill. :
[NT 47298] Series:	Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
[NT 47266] Subject:	Census. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE - Statistics. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337602
[NT 51398] Summary:	"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.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230337602electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0230337600electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230348981 (electronic)
[NT 50961] ISBN:	023034898X (electronic)
[NT 50961] ISBN:	hardback
[NT 50961] ISBN:	hardback
[NT 60779] Content 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. 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.

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

A cultural history of the British census : envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century / Kathrin Levitan. - 1st ed.. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 p.) ; ill.. - (Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history).
'A National Undertaking': Taking the Census.
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9780230337602ISBN 0230337600ISBN 9780230348981 (electronic)ISBN 023034898X (electronic)
Census.SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics.

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