Changes in censuses from imperialist to welfare states : how societies and states count / Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emigh, Rebecca Jean, 1962- author.

Riley, Dylan J., 1971- author.

Ahmed, Patricia, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Census.

Bureaucracy--History.

Bureaucracy.

Pressure groups--History.

Pressure groups.

Social change.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

267 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

2. The Interactive Effects of States and Societies on Censuses

3. The Rise of the Racial Census in the United States

4. Italy and the Regions

5. Interventionist Censuses Develop in the Twentieth Century

6. The Post World War II United States: The Census and Identity Mobilization

7. The Insulation of the Italian Census

8. Conclusions.

Notes:

The title in volume 1: Antecedents of censuses from medieval to nation states: how societies and states count.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137485052

1137485051

OCLC:

909320498