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A total science : statistics in liberal and Fascist Italy /

From the early 1900s to the end of the Second World War, Italian statistics was characterized by original, consistent, and widely recognized scientific contributions, a clearly hegemonic position vis-à-vis Italian social science at that time, and the totalitarian political environment in which it d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prévost, Jean-Guy, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of modern Italian statistics
  • Entrepreneurship and rivalry : statisticians in the Academy
  • The politics of expertise : statisticians and the state
  • Form and substance : a science of architectonics
  • The theory and practice of totalitarianism.