Statistics and the public sphere : numbers and the people in modern Britain, c. 1800-2000 / edited by Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crook, Tom, 1977-

O'Hara, Glen, 1974-

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern British history ; 6.

Routledge studies in modern British history ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Statistics.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

vii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

The torrent of numbers : statistics and the public sphere in Britain, c. 1800-2000 / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara

Statistics and the career of public reason : engagement and detachment in a quantified world / Theodore M. Porter

Governing numbers

"In these you may trust" : numerical information, accounting practices, and the poor law, c. 1790 to 1840 / Steven King

The state and statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : promotion of the public sphere or boundary maintenance? / Edward Higgs

Numbers, experts, and ideas : the French economic model in Britain, c. 1951-1973 / Glen O'Hara

Picturing the public

Numbers and narratives : epistemologies of aggregation in British statistics and social realism, c. 1790-1880 / Maeve E. Adams

Printed statistics and the public sphere : numeracy, electoral politics, and the visual culture of numbers, 1880-1914 / James Thompson

The statisticalization of the consumer in British market research, c. 1920-1960 : profiling a good society / Stefan Schwarzkopf

Numbers and public trust

Suspect figures : statistics and public trust in Victorian England / Tom Crook

Numbers, character, and trust in early Victorian Britain : the independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company fraud / James Taylor

The politics of statistics

"Population combined with wealth and taxation" : statistics, representation, and the making of the 1832 Reform Act / S.J. Thompson

A "naked strength and beauty" : statistics in the British tariff debate, 1880-1914 / Edmund Rogers

Polling public opinion before opinion polls : the conservative party and election prediction between the wars / Laura Beers

Towards new histories of an enumerated people / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

9780415878944

0415878942

OCLC:

670211574

Publisher Number:

99943067880