Format:
1 online resource (vii, 275 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780203818671
,
9781136737800
,
9781136737817
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in modern British history 6
Content:
1. The 'torrent of numbers' : statistics and the public sphere in Britain, c. 1800-2000 / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara -- 2. Statistics and the career of public reason : engagement and detachment in a quantified world / Theodore M. Porter -- 3. 'In these you may trust' : numerical information, accounting practices and the poor law, c. 1790 to 1840 / Steven King -- 4. The state and statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : promotion of the public sphere or boundary maintenance? / Edward Higgs -- 5. Numbers, experts and ideas : the French economic model in Britain, c. 1951-1973 / Glen O'Hara -- 6. Numbers and narratives : epistemologies of aggregation in British statistics and social realism, c. 1790-1880 / Maeve E. Adams -- 7. Printed statistics and the public sphere : numeracy, electoral politics and the visual culture of numbers, 1880-1914 / James Thompson -- 8. The statisticalization of the consumer in British market research, c. 1920-1960 : profiling a good society / Stefan Schwarzkopf -- 9. Suspect figures : statistics and public trust in Victorian England / Tom Crook -- 10. Numbers, character and trust in early Victorian Britain : the independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company fraud / James Taylor -- 11. 'Population combined with wealth and taxation' : statistics, representation and the making of the 1832 Reform Act / S.J. Thompson -- 12. A 'naked strength and beauty' : statistics in the British tariff debate, 1880-1914 / Edmund Rogers -- 13. Polling public opinion before opinion polls : the conservative party and election prediction between the wars / Laura Beers -- 14. Towards new histories of an enumerated people / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415878944
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415878944
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203818671
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