Title Statements
- Full title :The American census : a social history / Margo J. Anderson.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015.
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
Comprend un index.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 332 pages : : illustrations, cartes ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300195422, 0300195427, 0300161026, 9780300161021
- oclc:on1131619984
- LC Classification:HA37.U55
- Dewey Decimal:304.6
Table of Contents
Introduction -- The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States -- Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s -- Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers -- The census and industrial America in the Gilded Age -- Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century -- The tribal twenties: national origins, malapportionment, and cheating by the numbers -- Counting the unemployed and the crisis of the Great Depression -- War, welfare, and the census: statistics for the American century -- Reapportionment, funds allocations, and the census -- Census undercount and the politics of counting, 1970-1980 -- The undercount controversies continue -- The census and the American community survey -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: U.S. population and area, 1790-2010 -- Appendix 2: Growth and cost of the decennial census, 1790-2010 -- Appendix 3: Congressional apportionment, 1789-2010 -- Appendix 4: Chronology of the states of the Union.
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
Discovering the brain
A guide to The Constitution, that delicate balance: a thirteen-week telecourse
McKenna, George
Discovering the brain
The American testament: for the Institute for Philosophical Res…
Adler, Mortimer Jerome
Files & Downloads
-
The American Census: A Social History, Second Edi…
PDF · 3.5 MB · updated -
The American Census: A Social History -- (.epub)
EPUB · 4.0 MB · updated
Rate & Review