The Power of Large Numbers
Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7848322M
- ISBN-139780801437014
- ISBN-100801437016
- OCLC Control Number42296334
- OCLC Control Numberpoweroflargenumb00cole
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99046229
- LibraryThing2628143
- Goodreads818006
Classifications
- LCCHB3593.C614 2000
Description
"In this work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the 1780s until the outbreak of the Great War. During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertility, family size, and longevity made new kinds of aggregate knowledge available to social scientists and government officials. Cole recounts how this information heavily influenced the outcome of debates over the scope and range of public welfare legislation. In particular, as the fear of depopulation grew, the state wielded statistical data to justify increasing intervention in family life and continued restrictions on the autonomy of women."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
The belief that a strong and vigorous nation requires a large population has a peculiar history in modern France.
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