Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Map 1 Italy during the process of unification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A science for the “civilizing” of nations
- 3 The logics of statistical description
- 4 Official numbers
- 5 “Patriotic” statistics
- 6 The identity of the Italians
- 7 A map of the new nation
- 8 Center and periphery
- 9 Epilogue
- Appendix: Numbers of statistical publications
- Select bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Map 1 Italy during the process of unification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A science for the “civilizing” of nations
- 3 The logics of statistical description
- 4 Official numbers
- 5 “Patriotic” statistics
- 6 The identity of the Italians
- 7 A map of the new nation
- 8 Center and periphery
- 9 Epilogue
- Appendix: Numbers of statistical publications
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Numbers and NationhoodWriting Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996