Book ID: CBB001033382

Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000 (2011)

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Crook, Tom (Editor)
O'Hara, Glen (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: vii + 275 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Levitan, Kathrin (2013) Review of "Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000". Journal of British Studies (p. 534). unapi

Review Alborn, Timothy (2014) Review of "Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000". Victorian Studies (pp. 297-300). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Crook, Tom; O'Hara, Glen (2011) The Torrent of Numbers: Statistics and the Public Sphere in Britain, c. 1800--2000. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Porter, Theodore M. (2011) Statistics and the Career of Public Reason: Engagement and Detachment in a Quantified World. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter King, Steven (2011) Governing Numbers---“In These You May Trust”: Numerical Information, Accounting Practices, and the Poor Law, c. 1790 to 1840. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Higgs, Edward (2011) The State and Statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Promotion of the Public Sphere or Boundary Maintenance?. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter O'Hara, Glen (2011) Numbers, Experts, and Ideas: The French Economic Model in Britain, c. 1951--1973. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Adams, Maeve E. (2011) Picturing the Public---Numbers and Narratives: Epistemologies of Aggregation in British Statistics and Social Realism, c. 1790--1880. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Thompson, James (2011) Printed Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numeracy, Electoral Politics, and the Visual Culture of Numbers, 1880--1914. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Schwarzkopf, Stefan (2011) The Statisticalization of the Consumer in British Market Research, c. 1920--1960: Profiling a Good Society. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Crook, Tom (2011) Numbers and Public Trust---Suspect Figures: Statistics and Public Trust in Victorian England. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Taylor, James (2011) Numbers, Character, and Trust in Early Victorian Britain: The Independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company Fraud. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Thompson, S. J. (2011) The Politics of Statistics---“Population Combined with Wealth and Taxation”: Statistics, Representation, and the Making of the 1832 Reform Act. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Rogers, Edmund (2011) A “Naked Strength and Beauty”: Statistics in the British Tariff Debate, 1880--1914. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Beers, Laura (2011) Polling Public Opinion before Opinion Polls: The Conservative Party and Election Prediction between the Wars. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

Chapter Crook, Tom; O'Hara, Glen (2011) Towards New Histories of an Enumerated People. In: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800--2000. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Goss, Andrew M.
Takashi Ito
Zaubermann, Renée
Vesentini, Frédéric
Shellam, Tiffany
Schlitz, Michael
Concepts
Science and government
Government sponsored science
Statistics
Science and economics
Science and politics
Science and law
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
France
Indonesia
East Indies
Manchuria
Argentina
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