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The body populace : military statistics and demography in Europe before the First World War / Heinrich Hartmann ; translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe.
Lippincott Library HB3581.A3 H3713 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartmann, Heinrich, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
- Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
- Standardized Title:
- Volkskörper bei der Musterung. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Population.
- History.
- Europe--Population--History--19th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--History, Military.
- History, Military.
- Europe--Population--Statistics.
- Europe--Statistics, Medical.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Statistics.
- Medical statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 256 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Computing military strength : the development of recruitment statistics
- From pathologies to topographies : statistics of illness within the military in new social contexts
- In the realm of the experts
- Measuring European soldiers
- New knowledge systems : statistical knowledge meets practice in the determination of fitness for military service
- Beyond the army : biologistic frameworks of interpretation
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Date from publisher's website.
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262536325
- 0262536323
- OCLC:
- 1055566213
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