Censuses and Census Takers: A Global History

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Contributors Author: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Language
Number of Pages
332 pp.
Publisher
Routledge
City
London, England
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ISBN
9781138553286
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Contents: 

  • Introduction and pre-censuses
  • Revolutionary census taking
  • Numeric censuses during the restoration period from 1815
  • The nominative census revived
  • International cooperation and comparison
  • Into the 20th century - ups and downs of census taking
  • Towards a global census?
  • Census technology
  • The historical census