States And Statistics In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Nico Randeraad
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152614753X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States and statistics in the nineteenth century written by Nico Randeraad and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth century Europe. The book deals not only with developments in the large states of Western Europe, but gives equal attention to small states (Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary) and to the declining Habsburg Empire and Tsarist Russia. Then, unlike today, statistics constituted a comprehensive science, which stemmed from the idea that society, just like nature, was governed by laws. In order to discover these laws, everything had to be counted. What could be counted, could be solved: crime, poverty, suicide, prostitution, illness, and many other threats to bourgeois society. The statisticians, often trained as jurists, economists and doctors, saw themselves as pioneers of a better future. Offering an original perspective on the tensions between universalism and the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century, this book will appeal to historians, statisticians, and social scientists in general.

Author : Adna Ferrin Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century written by Adna Ferrin Weber and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ankush Agrawal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108775519
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numbers in India's Periphery written by Ankush Agrawal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the quality of statistics such as geographic area, census population and sample survey statistics in a developing country. Using field interviews, archival sources, and secondary data covering the last seven decades, it explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics over their lifecycles and charts their cradle-to-grave political career. It uncovers a mutually constitutive relationship between data, development, and democracy and offers an exciting account of how government statistics are social artefacts dynamically shaped by political and economic factors. The book also quantifies the impact of data quality on the statistics of interest to policy makers such as household consumption expenditure and federal transfers. Numbers in India's Periphery makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the political economy of statistics in developing countries through a novel analysis of the shifting determinants of the nature of data in North East India.

Author : Adna Ferrin Weber
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781347116562
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century written by Adna Ferrin Weber and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Susan Schulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226740706
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Nation written by Susan Schulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.

Author : Adna Ferrin 1870-1968 Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781363203796
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GROWTH OF CITIES IN THE 19TH C written by Adna Ferrin 1870-1968 Weber and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jos C. G. Kennedy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333655181
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Statistics of the State of Maryland written by Jos C. G. Kennedy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History and Statistics of the State of Maryland: According to the Returns of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850 The changes in the geographical features of territory in the United States, since the first Census, have been so frequent within the several States, that without some explanation, the facts in many portions of the work, present apparent inconsistency. The investigation necessary to arrive at the areas of the different subdivisions in the Union at different periods to reconcile these apparent discrepancies, has developed many facts of great interest, and led to their preparation, with others equally important and valuable, which are deemed worthy a place in a work which will exhibit the state of our country in the middle of the nineteenth century. The work, with all its imperfections, is respectfully submitted to Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Adna Ferrin Weber
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340685140
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century written by Adna Ferrin Weber and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Alan Kidd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349276138
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England written by Alan Kidd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or coped with poverty without recourse to the state. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much welfare was organised through charitable societies, self-help institutions and mutual-aid networks. Rather than look for the origins of modern provision, the author casts a searching light on the practices, ideology and outcomes of nineteenth-century welfare. This original and stimulating study, based upon a wealth of scholarship, is essential reading for all students of poverty and welfare. It also contains much to interest a wider readership.

Author : Jean-Guy Prévost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321251
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945 written by Jean-Guy Prévost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are able to present a truly original work.