A Cultural History of the British Census: Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century

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.

Author: K. Levitan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230119376

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