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Disciplining statistics : demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830/1885 / Libby Schweber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweber, Libby.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demography--France--History--19th century.
- Demography.
- Demography--England--History--19th century.
- France--Statistics, Vital--History--19th century.
- France.
- England--Statistics, Vital--History--19th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- The struggle for disciplinary recognition: why "invent" a discipline in nineteenth-century France?
- The "invention" of demography, 1853/1855
- The neglect of demography, 1855/1867
- The re-invention of demography, 1867/1878
- The institutionalization of vital statistics in England: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
- The invention of vital statistics, 1830/1837
- Vital statistics as an instrument of social reform
- The institutionalization of demography in France: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century France
- Discipline formation at last
- Limits to institutionalization
- The struggle to retain disciplinary recognition: how to "defend" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
- The challenge to vital statistics
- Institutional transformations and the introduction of disciplinary specialization.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822338253
- 0822338254
- OCLC:
- 1139359744
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