America by the numbers : quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics /

This is a title in the Infrastructures series and it is a translation from the French (it was published in France by la Decouverte in 2009). It is a look at the infancy of agricultural and labor statistics in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. On the face of it, this seems like a dry topic, b...

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