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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Public numbers and the Victorian state: The General Register Office, the census, and statistics in nineteenth-century Britain Abstract: In this dissertation I situate the development of statistical knowledge within the social and cultural history of Victorian Britain. In so doing I am also exploring the relationship between this specific instance in the history of science and such issues of larger historiographic concern as the emergence of modern bureaucracies, nationalism and national identities, secularization, and the relationship between Britain and the Empire. To this end, I examine the manner in which public numbers--particularly censuses--were produced in the nineteenth century; reactions to this data by both governments and the more general populace; and the impact of public numbers on the way people perceived and interacted with the world thus described. Without denying the value of statistics in helping us to understand socio-economic trends, I point to the social constructedness of numbers, as well as to the ways in which statistical thinking spread outside the realm of statisticians into other intellectual spheres. |
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