Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Victorians and Numbers
Author: Lawrence GoldmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192663410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns for sanitary improvement; Charles Babbage was inspired to design and build his famous calculating engines to process them. The mid-Victorians employed statistics consistently to make the case for liberal reform. In later decades, however, the emergence of the academic discipline of mathematical statistics - statistics as we use them today - became associated with eugenics and a contrary social philosophy. Where earlier statisticians emphasised the unity of mankind, some later practitioners, following Francis Galton, studied variation and difference within and between groups. In chapters on learned societies, government departments, international statistical collaborations, and different Victorian statisticians, Victorians and Numbers traces the impact of numbers on the era and the intriguing relationship of Victorian statistics with 'Big Data' in our own age.
Catalogue of the Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Author: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Census and Social Structure
Author: Richard LawtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136272178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording births, deaths and marriages, population numbers and trends, the essential dynamic basis of population analysis, may be studied. For the present day student they are an incomparable storehouse of data for the historian and social scientist; indeed in almost any study of the nineteenth century we must sooner or later turn to the census for information.
Catalogue
Author: Institute of actuaries librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Sessional Index
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
A Catalogue of the MSS. and Printed Books Bequeathed to Owens College ... by ... J. P. Lee ... Bishop of Manchester
Author: Owen's College (MANCHESTER)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers. A Catalogue of Important Reports, Evidences, and Papers, Printed by Order of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Author: Philip Stephen KINGNotices of the Proceedings
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description