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055 3 $aHA37 C22$bC87 2000
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100 1 $aCurtis, Bruce.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011129206
245 14 $aThe politics of population :$bstate formation, statistics, and the census of Canada, 1840-1875 /$cBruce Curtis.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo, USA :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
263 $a0008
300 $ax, 385 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The 'Eyes of Politics' --$g1.$tMaking up Population --$g2.$tThe First Experiments --$g3.$tNumbering Names --$g4.$tCalculating Canada in the 1850s --$g5.$tSetting up the Sectarian Census --$g6.$tThe 'Reality of the Representation' --$g7.$tFacts, Figures, and Fundamentalism --$g8.$tThe 'Pur Sang' Census --$tConclusion: Administering the 'Knowable Community'.
520 1 $a"The Politics of Population provides a detailed account of the political and social context in which census making developed in Canada. It discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.
520 8 $aIt also looks closely at census making as an administrative practice, identifying the main census managers and outlining the organization of five attempts at census making between 1842 and 1850, before describing how census making finally unfolded between 1852 and 1871."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aCanada$xCensus$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aCanada$xStatistical services$xHistory$y19th century.
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