A Cultural History of the British Census : Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780230337602
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;

The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.


KATHRIN LEVITAN Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA.
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