Numbers and nationhood : writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy
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Numbers and nationhood : writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy
（Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture）
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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注記
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.), Johns Hopkins University
Bibliography: p. 243-270
Includes index
"First published 1996" -- T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Numbers and Nationhood, first published in 1996, explores the Italian inflection of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in society. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which informed the copious statistical literature produced between the 1820s, when statistical publications began to proliferate in the Italian states, and the 1870s, when a unified Italy entered a fully positivistic era. Her innovative study illuminates the relationship between the needs of an emerging nation and the uses to which statistics were put, generating a long-lasting image of Italy which nevertheless accentuated its internal territorial divisions. By examining the power of numerical representations, Numbers and Nationhood provides a fresh reading of the historiography of Risorgimento Italy and of positivism, bringing to the fore issues of science, ideology, and representation.
目次
- 1. Introduction: the history of statistics between state making and objectifications
- 2. A science for 'civilized' countries: practitioners, audiences and theories of statistics, 1820s-50s
- 3. Statistical description: between epistemology and politics
- 4. Making public numbers: official statistics in the pre-unification monarchies
- 5. Building the nation's body: 'patriotic statistics' representation of Italy
- 6. The identity of the Italians, or the ambiguities of moral statistics
- 7. Representing the new nation (1861-71)
- 8. A nation of Communes in a Europe of nationalities: the statistical Congress of Florence
- Epilogue: measurable and unmeasurable things.
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