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Numbers and Nationhood : Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Numbers and Nationhood Writing Statistics in NineteenthCentury Italy - Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture Author:Silvana Patriarca Numbers and Nationhood explores the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in Italian society during the nineteenth century. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies that informed numerical productions, and the role that statistics played in generating a national image of Italy that nevertheless accentuated its internal territorial divi... more »sions. This innovative study provides a fresh reading of the historiography of Risorgimento Italy, bringing issues of science, ideology and representation to the fore.« less