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

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

Routledge
Publication date: 2011
Language: English

ISBN: 9780415878944

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

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Statistics Applied statistics Science and government Mathematical analysis Government sponsored science Science and economics Science and law 20th century 19th century Great Britain

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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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