The Politics of Population
Subtitle: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: March 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780802048530
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Political structure & processes; Population & demography; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Canada - History; Demographic History; History; History - General History; Canada; General; History / Canada; Canada - General
Description: "The Politics of Population provides a detailed account of the political and social context in which census making developed in Canada. It discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.

It also looks closely at census making as an administrative practice, identifying the main census managers and outlining the organization of five attempts at census making between 1842 and 1850, before describing how census making finally unfolded between 1852 and 1871."--BOOK JACKET.