Changes in censuses from imperialist to welfare states: how societies and states count

"Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States, the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago. The authors argue that...

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Beteiligte Personen: Emigh, Rebecca Jean 1962- (VerfasserIn), Riley, Dylan J. 1971- (VerfasserIn), Ahmed, Patricia 1963- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2016
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Zusammenfassung:"Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States, the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago. The authors argue that censuses arose from interactions between bureaucracies and social interests, and that censuses constituted public, official knowledge not where they were insulated from social pressures, but rather where there was intense social and political interaction around them"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:267 Seiten
ISBN:9781137485052