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ISBN-10 : 0192847740

ISBN-13 : 978-0192847744

Author: Lawrence Goldman 

This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this ‘data revolution’.

 

Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: Victorians and Numbers

Prologue: Statistics at the Zenith. The International Statistical Congress, London 1860

Part I Political Arithmetic and Statistics 1660–1840
1 Before the Victorians

Part II The Origins of the Statistical Movement 1825–1835
2 Cambridge and London: The Cambridge Network and the Origins of the Statistical Society of London
3 Manchester: The Manchester Statistical Society: Industry, Sectarianism, and Education
4 Clerkenwell: The London Statistical Society and Artisan Statisticians

Part III Intellectual Influences
5 Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Statistics and the Computer
6 Richard Jones and William Whewell: Statistics, Induction, and Political Economy
7 Adolphe Quetelet: Social Physics, Determinism, and ‘The Average Man’
8 Alexander von Humboldt: Humboldtian Science, Natural Theology, and the Unity of Nature
9 The Opposition to Statistics: Disraeli, Dickens, Ruskin, and Carlyle

Part IV Statistics at Mid-Century
10 Mapping and Defining British Statistics
11 Buckle’s Fatal History: Making Statistics Popular
12 Medicine and Statistics at Mid-Century

Part V Liberal Decline and Reinvention
13 The International Statistical Congress, 1851–1878: Conservative Nationalism versus Liberal Internationalism
14 The End of the Statistical Movement: Francis Galton, Variation, and Eugenics
15 Social Statistics in the 1880s: The Industrial Remuneration Conference
16 Conclusion: From Statistics to Big Data
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End Matter
Bibliography
Index

 

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