Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800-1945

Jean-Guy Prevost, Jean-Pierre Beaud

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Percentages and the Emergence of Statistical Objectivity; Chapter 2 The Republic of Numbers: Robert Gourlay and the Art of the Statistical Account; Chapter 3 Adolphe Quetelet and the Expanded Reproduction of 'Statistism'; Chapter 4 Form as Content: The Establishment of National Statistical Systems; Chapter 5 Immigration and Population Growth: an American Statistical Controversy; Chapter 6 The Epitaph of Imperial Statistics; Chapter 7 Statistical Expertise and the Twilight of Liberal Italy; Chapter 8 Politics of the Sampling Revolution;