Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain Goldman Lawrence
Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain Goldman Lawrence A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. This is a study of…
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Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain Goldman Lawrence
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. 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. 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.
They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns
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