Thesis ID: CBB001564837

Numbers and the nation: The statistical representation of Italy, 1820-1871 (1992)

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Patriarca, Silvana (Author)


Walker, Mark
Johns Hopkins University


Publication Date: 1992
Edition Details: Advisor: Mark Walker
Physical Details: 325 pp.

Description “This study explores a national declension of this European-wide phenomenon, namely the emergence of statistics as a principal practice of social description in Italy during the decades in which the country became a nation state.” Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 53 (1992): 277. Univ. Microfilms order no. 92-16614.


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Authors & Contributors
Patriarca, Silvana
Woolf, Stuart J.
Seneta, E.
Romani, Roberto
Porter, Theodore M.
Perrot, Jean-Claude
Journals
Società e Storia
Science in Context
Ricerca Folklorica
Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Publishers
Rowman & Littlefield
Routledge
Laterza
Harwood Academic
Éditions des Archives Contemporaines
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Applied statistics
Statistics
Mathematics
Science and law
Science and government
Social sciences
People
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
Pearson, Karl
Maxwell, James Clerk
Liebermeister, Carl
Hermann, Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Italy
France
Prussia (Germany)
British Isles
Great Britain
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