Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation / Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann We...
Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation / Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann We...
Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation / Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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G 2020/0781 , G 2019/3382
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xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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volume
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pt. I THE ORIGINS OF THE US CENSUS: FROM ENUMERATION OF VOTERS AND TAXPAYERS TO "SOCIAL STATISTICS," 1790--1840 -- 1.The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States: A Political Instrument -- 2.The First Developments of the National Census (1800--1830) -- 3.The Census of...
pt. III THE RISE OF IMMIGRATION AND THE RACIALIZATION OF SOCIETY: THE ADAPTATION OF THE CENSUS TO THE DIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION (1850--1900) -- 8.Modernization, Standardization, and Internationalization: From the Censuses of J. C. G. Kennedy (1850 and 1860) to the First Census of Francis...
15.The Question of Racial Mixing in the American Possessions: National Norms and Local Resistance -- Illustrations -- 16.New Asian Races, New Mixtures, and the "Mexican" Race: Interest in "Minor Races" -- 17.From Statistics by Country of Birth to the System of National Origins -- pt. V THE POPULATIO...
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation / Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss.
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First published as: Compter et classer : Histoire des recensements américains by Paul Schor, Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references(pages 337-350) and index.
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Online version Schor, Paul, author. Counting Americans New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780199917860 (DLC) 2017013971
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