Statistics and the Public Sphere : Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000 (Paperback)

1. The ‘Torrent of Numbers’: Statistics and the Public Sphere in Britain, C. 1800-2000. Tom Crook and Glen O’Hara  2. Statistics and the Career of Public Reason: Engagement and Detachment in a Quantified World. Theodore M. Porter  Part I: Governing Numbers  3. ‘In These You May Trust’: Numerical Information, Accounting Practices and the Poor Law, c. 1790 to 1840. Steven King  4. The State and Statistics in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Promotion of the Public Sphere or Boundary Maintenance? Edward Higgs  5. Numbers, Experts and Ideas: The French Economic Model in Britain, c. 1951-1973. Glen O’Hara  Part II: Picturing the Public  6. Numbers and Narratives: Epistemologies of Aggregation in British Statistics and Social Realism, c. 1790-1880. Maeve E. Adams  7. Printed Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numeracy, Electoral Politics and the Visual Culture of Numbers, 1880-1914. James Thompson  8. The Statisticalization of the Consumer in British Market Research, c. 1920-1960: Profiling a Good Society. Stefan Schwarzkopf  Part III: Numbers and Public Trust  9. Suspect Figures: Statistics and Public Trust in Victorian England. Tom Crook  10. Numbers, Character and Trust in Early Victorian Britain: The Independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company Fraud. James Taylor  Part IV: The Politics of Statistics  11. ‘Population Combined With Wealth and Taxation’: Statistics, Representation and the Making of the 1832 Reform Act. S.J. Thompson  12. A ‘Naked Strength and Beauty’: Statistics in the British Tariff Debate, 1880-1914. Edmund Rogers  13. Polling Public Opinion before Opinion Polls: The Conservative Party and Election Prediction between the Wars. Laura Beers  14. Towards New Histories of an Enumerated People. Tom Crook and Glen O’Hara