Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, C. 1800-2000 - Couverture rigide

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9780415878944: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, C. 1800-2000
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ISBN 10 : 0415878942 ISBN 13 : 9780415878944
Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics within Britain's public sphere has yet to receive the attention it deserves. There exist numerous histories of both modern statistical reasoning and the modern public sphere; but to date, there are no works which, quite pointedly, aim to analyse the historical entanglement of the two. Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c.1800-2000 directly addresses this neglected area of historiography, and in so doing places the present in some much needed historical perspective.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published in Social History, Urban History and Journal of Victorian Culture. He is currently completing a book-length study entitled Time and the Social Body: Public Health and English Modernity, 1830-1914.

Glen O'Hara is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Britain and the Sea since 1600 (2010), From Dreams to Disillusionment; Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain (2007), and the co-editor of The Modernisation of Britain? Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of 1964-1970 (2006).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415878942
ISBN 13 
9780415878944
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
290
Éditeur
Crook Tom, O'Hara Glen
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781032923345: Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, C. 1800-2000

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ISBN 10 :  1032923342 ISBN 13 :  9781032923345
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