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States and statistics in the nineteenth century
Nico Randeraad
2010
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In this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth century Europe. The book deals not only with developments in the large states of Western Europe, but gives equal attention to small states (Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary) and to the declining Habsburg Empire and Tsarist Russia. Then, unlike today, statistics constituted a comprehensive science, which stemmed from the idea that society, just like nature, was governed by laws. In order to discover these laws, everything had to be counted. What could be counted, could be solved: crime, poverty, suicide, prostitution, illness, and many other threats to bourgeois society. The statisticians, often trained as jurists, economists and doctors, saw themselves as pioneers of a better future.
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Keywords
- Europe
- European History
- General
- History
- History / Europe
- Humanities
- KUnlatched
- nineteenth-century Europe
- Political Science
- Politics & government
- Public administration
- Public Affairs & Administration
- Regional & national history
- Social Science
- societal laws
- Society & Social Sciences
- statistical science
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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