The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.

Autorentext
KATHRIN LEVITAN Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA.

Inhalt
A National Undertaking': Taking the Census The Census and Surplus The Census and Political Representation Urban Growth, Urban Problems, and the Census Marriage, the Family, and the Nation 'Sprung from Ourselves:" Counting Race at Home and in the Colonies' Challenges and Alternatives to the Census