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Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy

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1. Introduction: the history of statistics between state making and objectifications 2. A science for 'civilized' countries: practitioners, audiences and theories of statistics, 1820s-50s 3. Statistical description: between epistemology and politics 4. Making public numbers: official statistics in the pre-unification monarchies 5. Building the nation's body: 'patriotic statistics' representation of Italy 6. The identity of the Italians, or the ambiguities of moral statistics 7. Representing the new nation (1861-71) 8. A nation of Communes in a Europe of nationalities: the statistical Congress of Florence Epilogue: measurable and unmeasurable things.

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