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A cultural history of the British censusenvisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cultural history of the British censusKathrin Levitan.
Reminder of title:	envisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century /
Author:	Levitan, Kathrin,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 272 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Census.
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230337602
ISBN:	9780230337602 (electronic bk.)

A cultural history of the British censusenvisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century /
Levitan, Kathrin,1977-

A cultural history of the British censusenvisioning the multitude in the nineteenth century /[electronic resource] :Kathrin Levitan. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 p.) :ill. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'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.

"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.

ISBN: 9780230337602 (electronic bk.)

Source: 534368Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

642323
Census.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HA37.G72 / L48 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 310.72/3

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