Statistics and the public sphere
Subtitle: numbers and the people in modern Britain, c. 1800-2000
By: edited by Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara
Series: Routledge studies in modern British history -- 6; Routledge studies in modern British history -- 6.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780415878944
Subjects: Social conditions; Statistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The torrent of numbers : statistics and the public sphere in Britain, c. 1800-2000 / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara; title: Statistics and the career of public reason : engagement and detachment in a quantified world / Theodore M. Porter; title: Governing numbers; title: "In these you may trust" : numerical information, accounting practices, and the poor law, c. 1790 to 1840 / Steven King; title: The state and statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : promotion of the public sphere or boundary maintenance? / Edward Higgs; title: Numbers, experts, and ideas : the French economic model in Britain, c. 1951-1973 / Glen O'Hara; title: Picturing the public; title: Numbers and narratives : epistemologies of aggregation in British statistics and social realism, c. 1790-1880 / Maeve E. Adams; title: Printed statistics and the public sphere : numeracy, electoral politics, and the visual culture of numbers, 1880-1914 / James Thompson; title: The statisticalization of the consumer in British market research, c. 1920-1960 : profiling a good society / Stefan Schwarzkopf; title: Numbers and public trust; title: Suspect figures : statistics and public trust in Victorian England / Tom Crook; title: Numbers, character, and trust in early Victorian Britain : the independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company fraud / James Taylor; title: The politics of statistics; title: "Population combined with wealth and taxation" : statistics, representation, and the making of the 1832 Reform Act / S.J. Thompson; title: A "naked strength and beauty" : statistics in the British tariff debate, 1880-1914 / Edmund Rogers; title: Polling public opinion before opinion polls : the conservative party and election prediction between the wars / Laura Beers; title: Towards new histories of an enumerated people / Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara.