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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Percentages and the Emergence of Statistical Objectivity
- 2 The Republic of Numbers: Robert Gourlay and the Art of the Statistical Account
- 3 Adolphe Quetelet and the Expanded Reproduction of ‘Statistism’
- 4 Form as Content: The Establishment of National Statistical Systems
- 5 Immigration and Population Growth: An American Statistical Controversy
- 6 The Epitaph of Imperial Statistics
- 7 Statistical Expertise and the Twilight of Liberal Italy
- 8 Politics of the Sampling Revolution
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Percentages and the Emergence of Statistical Objectivity
- 2 The Republic of Numbers: Robert Gourlay and the Art of the Statistical Account
- 3 Adolphe Quetelet and the Expanded Reproduction of ‘Statistism’
- 4 Form as Content: The Establishment of National Statistical Systems
- 5 Immigration and Population Growth: An American Statistical Controversy
- 6 The Epitaph of Imperial Statistics
- 7 Statistical Expertise and the Twilight of Liberal Italy
- 8 Politics of the Sampling Revolution
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers, pp. i - ivPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014