LEADER 03564oam 2200613 450 001 996552347403316 005 20230621141107.0 010 $a9781526147530$b(PDF ebook) 010 $a152614753X$b(PDF ebook) 010 $z9780719081422$b(hardback) 010 $z0719081424$b(hardback) 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526147530 035 $a(CKB)5400000000000451 035 $a(ScCtBLL)57c3c1ce-a2ff-4190-8362-fa5d673cf4fc 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38772 035 $a(DE-B1597)659614 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526147530 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000000451 100 $a20210126h20202010 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStates and statistics in the nineteenth century $eEurope by numbers /$fNico Randeraad; translated from Dutch by Debra Molnar 210 $cManchester University Press$d2020 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2010. 210 31$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) $cdigital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9780719081422 0719081424 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. The first meeting: Brussels 1853 -- 2. All the world?s a stage: Paris 1855 -- 3. The expansion of Europe: Vienna 1857 -- 4. On waves of passion: London 1860 -- 5. The German phoenix: Berlin 1863 -- 6. Nationalism unbounded: Florence 1867 -- 7. Small gestures in a big world: The Hague 1869 -- 8. ?Sadder and wiser?: St Petersburg 1872 and Budapest 1876 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index 330 $aIn this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth century Europe. The book deals not only with developments in the large states of Western Europe, but gives equal attention to small states (Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary) and to the declining Habsburg Empire and Tsarist Russia. Then, unlike today, statistics constituted a comprehensive science, which stemmed from the idea that society, just like nature, was governed by laws. In order to discover these laws, everything had to be counted. What could be counted, could be solved: crime, poverty, suicide, prostitution, illness, and many other threats to bourgeois society. The statisticians, often trained as jurists, economists and doctors, saw themselves as pioneers of a better future. Offering an original perspective on the tensions between universalism and the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century, this book will appeal to historians, statisticians, and social scientists in general. 606 $aHistory / Europe$2bisacsh 606 $aPolitical Science / Public Affairs & Administration$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 607 $aEurope$xStatistics$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aEurope$xSocial conditions$y19th century$xSources 610 $aPolitical Science 610 $aPublic Affairs & Administration 610 $aHistory 610 $aEurope 610 $aGeneral 615 7$aHistory / Europe 615 7$aPolitical Science / Public Affairs & Administration 615 0$aHistory 676 $a314'.09034 700 $aRanderaad$b Nico$0466078 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552347403316 996 $aStates and statistics in the nineteenth century$92046534 997 $aUNISA