America by the numbers : quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics

Author(s)

• Didier, Emmanuel
• Porter, Theodore M.
• Sen, Priya Vari

Bibliographic Information

America by the numbers : quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics

Emmanuel Didier ; foreword by Theodore M. Porter ; translated by Priya Vari Sen

（Infrastructures series）

MIT Press, c2020

• : pbk

Other Title

En quoi consiste l'Amérique? : les statistiques, le New Deal et la démocratie

Note

"Revised and updated for the English language edition"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-384) and index

Details

• NCID: BC05157802
• ISBN:
  • 9780262538374
• LCCN: 2019022829
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 415 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E806
  • DC23 : 973.917
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : New Deal, 1933-1939
  • LCSH : United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
  • LCSH : Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
  • LCSH : Agricultural surveys -- United States -- History -- 1919-1933
  • LCSH : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics -- Officials and employees
  • LCSH : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Officials and employees
  • LCSH : United States. Bureau of the Census -- Officials and employees
  • LCSH : Statisticians -- United States -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB09700942