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Disciplining statistics : demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830/1885 /
Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Politics, history, and culture. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The struggle for disciplinary recognition: why "invent" a discipline in nineteenth-century France?
- The "invention" of demography, 1853/1855
- The neglect of demography, 1855/1867
- The re-invention of demography, 1867/1878
- The institutionalization of vital statistics in England: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
- The invention of vital statistics, 1830/1837
- Vital statistics as an instrument of social reform
- The institutionalization of demography in France: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century France
- Discipline formation at last
- Limits to institutionalization
- The struggle to retain disciplinary recognition: how to "defend" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
- The challenge to vital statistics
- Institutional transformations and the introduction of disciplinary specialization.