Changes in censuses from imperialist to welfare states
Subtitle: how societies and states count
By: Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, Patricia Ahmed
Contributors: Riley, Dylan J., 1971-; Ahmed, Patricia, 1963-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137485052
Subjects: Bureaucracy; Census; Social change; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology; Methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography; Pressure groups; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; History
Description: "Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States, the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago. The authors argue that censuses arose from interactions between bureaucracies and social interests, and that censuses constituted public, official knowledge not where they were insulated from social pressures, but rather where there was intense social and political interaction around them"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Interactive Effects of States and Societies on Censuses; title: 3. The Rise of the Racial Census in the United States; title: 4. Italy and the Regions; title: 5. Interventionist Censuses Develop in the Twentieth Century; title: 6. The Post World War II United States: The Census and Identity Mobilization; title: 7. The Insulation of the Italian Census; title: 8. Conclusions.