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A Cultural History of the British Census

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230337602

ISBN: 978-1-349-29824-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction: Envisioning the Multitude

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 1 –14

[In 1854, a British journalist reviewing the recently published 1851 census report declared that “the full and clear delineation of the state of our nation, presented by these books, carries back the thoughts irresistibly to the first recognized days of its existence.” The writer went on to...
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“A National Undertaking”: Taking the Census

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 15 –46

[On November 19, 1800, Charles Abbot addressed the British House of Commons proposing that “leave be given to bring in a bill to ascertain the population of Great Britain.”3 Abbot declared, “It has long been a matter of surprise and astonishment, that a great, powerful, and enlightened nation...
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The Census and Surplus

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 47 –72

[One of the most striking aspects of the census during the early nineteenth century was simply the astounding rate of population growth that it indicated. The population of Great Britain more than doubled between 1801 and 1851, with the highest rate of growth occurring during the 1810s and 1820s....
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The Census and Representation

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 73 –96

[When the government proposed to take a census in 1753, the landowners of Britain refused to be counted. They claimed that the measure was intrusive, that it would be used by the government to collect taxes or to otherwise interfere with the inherited liberties of an English gentleman, and that...
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Urban Growth, Urban Problems, and the Census

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 97 –121

[“A town, such as London,” wrote Friedrich Engels in 1844, “where a man may wander for hours together without reaching the beginning of the end, without meeting the slightest hint which could lead to the inference that there is open country within reach, is a strange thing.” Engels’ puzzlement...
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Marriage, the Family, and the Nation

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 123 –146

[In 1862, the British writer William Rathbone Greg published his article “Why are Women Redundant?” in the National Review. Greg noted that there were 500,000 more women than men in Great Britain, but the women about whom he was really concerned were the unmarried ones. As Greg wrote,]
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“Sprung from Ourselves”: Counting Race at Home and in the Colonies

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 147 –178

[The census, I have argued, played a major role in allowing British people to visualize their nation in new ways. The precise borders of the nation, however, were fluid and shifting, and as global communication and migration increased over the course of the nineteenth century, new ways of...
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Challenges and Alternatives to the Census

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 179 –202

[As the above quotation makes clear, not every one shared the British public’s fascination with the census. Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell simply could not fathom what might be interesting about the census, and she was not alone. Yet this lack of interest is surprising given both Gaskell’s own public...
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Conclusion

Levitan, Kathrin

Pages: 203 –206

[By the 1860s, the census had been transformed from a purely government project to a public and national one. Its transformation happened in dialogue and in parallel with the rapid changes arising from industrialization and other forces, and it was therefore both the society and the census itself...

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