Author: Great Britain. General Register Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Story of the General Register Office and Its Origins from 1538 to 1937
Author: Great Britain. General Register Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
National Censuses and Vital Statistics in Europe, 1918-1939
Author: Library of Congress. Census Library Project
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
National Censuses and Vital Statistics in Europe, 1940-1948 Supplement
Author: Henry Joachim Dubester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
National Censuses and Vital Statistics in Europe, 1918-1939
Author: Henry Joachim Dubester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Government Machine
Author: Jon Agar
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262292904
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action—a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant. Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil Service itself can be seen as an information-processing entity. Agar argues that the changing capacities of government have depended on the implementation of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technologies has depended on a vision of government and a fundamental model of organization. Thus, to study the history of technology is to study the state, and vice versa.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262292904
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action—a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant. Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil Service itself can be seen as an information-processing entity. Agar argues that the changing capacities of government have depended on the implementation of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technologies has depended on a vision of government and a fundamental model of organization. Thus, to study the history of technology is to study the state, and vice versa.
Consolidated List of Government Publications
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Record [of The] American Institute of Actuaries
Author: American Institute of Actuaries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Higher Civil Servants in Britain
Author: R. K. Kelsall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136261052
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136261052
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Record
Author: American Institute of Actuaries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description