Disciplining statistics : demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 /
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| Language: | English |
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Durham:
Duke University Press,
c2006
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| Series: | Politics, history, and culture
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Table of Contents:
- 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