The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875

by Bruce Curtis

Book Overview

Inspired by recent developments in social theory and based on extensive archival research, this book provides the first systematic analysis of the developing knowledge capacities of the state in Victorian Canada. No government can intensively administer citizens about whom it knows nothing. The centralization of knowledge in the form of official statistics was an important dimension of state formation. The census of population was the leading project...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085857
• ISBN13: 9780802085856
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"