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LEADER: 02134cam a22003374a 4500
001 2006010426
003 DLC
005 20070314112922.0
008 060328s2006 ncua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006010426
020 $a0822338254 (cloth : alk. paper)
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020 $a0822338149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHB853.F8$bS38 2006
082 00 $a304.60944/09034$222
100 1 $aSchweber, Libby.
245 10 $aDisciplining statistics :$bdemography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830/1885 /$cLibby Schweber.
260 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$cc2006.
300 $a277 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPolitics, history, and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-272) and index.
505 0 $aThe struggle for disciplinary recognition: why "invent" a discipline in nineteenth-century France? -- The "invention" of demography, 1853/1855 -- The neglect of demography, 1855/1867 -- The re-invention of demography, 1867/1878 -- The institutionalization of vital statistics in England: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century England -- The invention of vital statistics, 1830/1837 -- Vital statistics as an instrument of social reform -- The institutionalization of demography in France: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century France -- Discipline formation at last -- Limits to institutionalization -- The struggle to retain disciplinary recognition: how to "defend" a discipline in nineteenth-century England -- The challenge to vital statistics -- Institutional transformations and the introduction of disciplinary specialization.
650 0 $aDemography$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aFrance$xStatistics, Vital$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aDemography$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aEngland$xStatistics, Vital$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010426.html