The power of large numbers: population, politics, and gender in nineteenth-century France

"In this work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the 1780s until the outbreak of the Great War. During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertili...

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1. Verfasser: Cole, Joshua 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 2000
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"In this work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the 1780s until the outbreak of the Great War. During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertility, family size, and longevity made new kinds of aggregate knowledge available to social scientists and government officials. Cole recounts how this information heavily influenced the outcome of debates over the scope and range of public welfare legislation. In particular, as the fear of depopulation grew, the state wielded statistical data to justify increasing intervention in family life and continued restrictions on the autonomy of women."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Teilw. zugl.: Berkeley, Univ. of California, Diss., 1991
Beschreibung:IX, 252 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0801437016

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