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Informationen zum Autor Libby Schweber Klappentext A comparative history of the origins and institutionalization of social statistics in France and England. Zusammenfassung Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Struggle for Disciplinary Recognition: Why “Invent” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France 1. The “Invention” of Demography, 1853–1855 35 2. The Neglect of Demography, 1855–1867 49 3. The Reinvention of Demography, 1867–1878 67 Part II. The Institutionalization of Vital Statistics in England: How to “Secure” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century England 4. The Invention of Vital Statistics, 1830–1837 93 5. Vital Statistics as an Instrument of Social Reform 105 Part III. The Institutionalization of Demography in France: How to “Secure” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France 6. Discipline Formation at Last 135 7. Limits to Institutionalization 157 Part IV. The Struggle to Retain Disciplinary Recognition: How to “Defend” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century England 8. The Challenge to Vital Statistics 179 9. Institutional Transformations and the Introduction of Disciplinary Specialization 191 Conclusion 213 Notes 227 Bibliography 253 Index 273
