Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

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Tom Crook Glen O'Hara

Statistics and the Public Sphere

Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara

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English

Routledge
29 March 2011

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social research & statistics; Population & demography

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics within Britain’s public sphere has yet to receive the attention it deserves. There exist numerous histories of both modern statistical reasoning and the modern public sphere; but to date, there are no works which, quite pointedly, aim to analyse the historical entanglement of the two. Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c.1800-2000 directly addresses this neglected area of historiography, and in so doing places the present in some much needed historical perspective.

Edited by: Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9780415878944
ISBN 10: 0415878942
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 29 March 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published in Social History, Urban History and Journal of Victorian Culture. He is currently completing a book-length study entitled Time and the Social Body: Public Health and English Modernity, 1830-1914. Glen O'Hara is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Britain and the Sea since 1600 (2010), From Dreams to Disillusionment; Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain (2007), and the co-editor of The Modernisation of Britain? Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of 1964-1970 (2006).

Reviews for Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

"""Unlike many books that collect together papers on a particular subject, this volume has coherence and has the advantage of being a good read."" -Iain Smith, The Historical Association “This is a welcome collection of essays that yields important insights into the history of the modern British state, the public, and the evolving use of statistical knowledge.”-J.F. Mayer, University of Edinburgh"