A cultural history of the British census [electronic resource] : envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century / Kathrin Levitan.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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Table of Contents:
- '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.
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- "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.