K Levitan: 1 book
A Cultural History of the British Census
Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.
